Mrs Bakshi Quotes & Sayings

Film has to describe and show. — Ralph Bakshi

Truth is not a prerequisite for belief, whilst belief is often times a catalyst for searching for one's own truth. — S.R. Bakshi

I wouldn't leave Disney to do Disney. — Ralph Bakshi

All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives. — Ralph Bakshi

My good films were independent and my bad films were not. — Ralph Bakshi

The components Mohan, the essential components. — Arpit Bakshi

Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art. — Ralph Bakshi

They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong. — Ralph Bakshi

The purpose and theme of the sacred chant was to bind consciousness across the universe in a single string. It extended
across universes known and unknown, and echoed in every heart throbbing. The people with intellect enough could grasp
to the message being relayed and others lead ephemeral lives without deciphering it. The echoes of chant were immortal and pervaded every knit of space and time, like binding force unseen, like a string holding every pearl in place. — Arpit Bakshi

My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them. — Ralph Bakshi

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. — Ralph Bakshi

Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs. — Ralph Bakshi

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

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film. — Ralph Bakshi

Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work. — Ralph Bakshi

One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular. — Ralph Bakshi

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

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

I hired Bob at Terrytoons. He was my assistant animator, and then became an animator himself. He had just come from Boston with his family and was a brilliant draftsman as well as a great jazz guitarist. We had lots of fun nights in Greenwich Village together and then later hanging in LA. Bob worked on Fritz the Cat , Heavy Traffic , Coonskin , and on Wizards . I am terribly saddened by his passing and will miss him dearly. — Ralph Bakshi

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

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

A widely popular
myth is still a myth and a truth ignored will still qualify as a
truth. — Arpit Bakshi

Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit! — Ralph Bakshi

I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights. — Ralph Bakshi

You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker. — Ralph Bakshi

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

I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness. — Ralph Bakshi

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

Every character in each of my movies is a different side of myself. — Ralph Bakshi