Film has to describe and show. Ralph Bakshi More Quotes by Ralph Bakshi More Quotes From Ralph Bakshi What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion. Ralph Bakshi important energy ideas As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks. Ralph Bakshi artist mother running As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings Ralph Bakshi artist feelings art I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job. Ralph Bakshi draws feels jobs Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art. Ralph Bakshi animation resilient art The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only take apart what they allow you to take apart, you're Disney. Cartooning is a low-class, for-the-public art, just like graffiti art and rap music. Vulgar but believable, that's the line I kept walking. Ralph Bakshi rap class art I separate cartooning, which is fun and wacky and soulful, from illustration, which is very well-drawn and extremely uptight to look at. There's a difference. I'm a cartoonist. Ralph Bakshi illustration differences fun Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children. Ralph Bakshi country children america I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness. Ralph Bakshi not-interested sake Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons. Ralph Bakshi fine paint art It's curtains for you, Mighty Mouse! This gun is so futuristic that even I don't know how it works! Ralph Bakshi gun funny science You cant second-guess yourself as a filmmaker. Ralph Bakshi cant filmmaker Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs. Ralph Bakshi emotion action hands Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms. Ralph Bakshi quality levels trying My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them. Ralph Bakshi found They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong. Ralph Bakshi revolutionary Someone's been mean to you! Tell me who it is, so I can punch him tastefully. Ralph Bakshi humor funny mean Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure. Ralph Bakshi jazz talking giving I wouldn't leave Disney to do Disney. Ralph Bakshi I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works. Ralph Bakshi ukulele adults today
