Top 30 Quotes by Ralph Bakshi

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

What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.

I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.

I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.

I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.

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

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.

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