64 Quotes by Ralph Bakshi

Painting pictures didn’t make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There’s always cycles of good art.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings – not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

Sweetheart, I’m the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that’s all I’m going to say.

Its all big money, high rent, high prices in New York City now. The poor people completely got rolled over. I’ve never seen anything like it in my life. It’s disgusting.

What’s most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I’m a great believer of energy and emotion.

It’s curtains for you, Mighty Mouse! This gun is so futuristic that even I don’t know how it works!

I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm’s Deep as the final sequence.

Someone’s been mean to you! Tell me who it is, so I can punch him tastefully.