I'm from the East Coast. I love the city. I love the characters. I love the kind of people we are, the kind other people look at in amazement. 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 importantenergyideas As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks. Ralph Bakshi artistmotherrunning As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings Ralph Bakshi artistfeelingsart I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job. Ralph Bakshi drawsfeelsjobs Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art. Ralph Bakshi animationresilientart 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 rapclassart 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 illustrationdifferencesfun 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 countrychildrenamerica I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness. Ralph Bakshi not-interestedsake 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 finepaintart It's curtains for you, Mighty Mouse! This gun is so futuristic that even I don't know how it works! Ralph Bakshi gunfunnyscience You cant second-guess yourself as a filmmaker. Ralph Bakshi cantfilmmaker Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs. Ralph Bakshi emotionactionhands 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 qualitylevelstrying 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 humorfunnymean 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 jazztalkinggiving 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 ukuleleadultstoday
