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"Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street."
"The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child."
"No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time."
"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
"A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators."
"Fear is the mother of morality."
"He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"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."
"I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works."
"I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights."
"I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien."
"The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them."
"What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion."
"Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art."
"Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say."
"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."
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