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.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

'Malandrinas' means 'bad girls,' but not bad in a negative way. I wrote it in homage to my female fans.

It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.