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Ralph Bakshi

"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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Donna Grant

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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Donna Grant

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

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Donna Grant

"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

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Donna Grant

"There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things."

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Donna Grant

"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."

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Donna Grant

"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."

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Donna Grant

"Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President."

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Donna Grant

"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."

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Donna Grant

"Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep 'em down in L.A."

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Donna Grant

"But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me."

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Ralph Bakshi
"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."

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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."

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Ralph Bakshi
"Film has to describe and show."

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Ralph Bakshi
"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."

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

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

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

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

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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."

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