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.

I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It's important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while, and you've got to treat them with love.

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

In all animation, if it's done quickly, you'll know it. And if you're very slow and careful with it, it's going to look a little more beautiful. It's just compressing time into seconds.

Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.