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Ralph Bakshi

"Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!"

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"Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!"

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"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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