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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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"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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"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."
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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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"Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat."
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"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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"I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works."
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"Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms."
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"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."
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"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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"Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art."
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"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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