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Ralph Bakshi

"Film has to describe and show."

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Donna Grant

"The Witch film, was one suspensed and good made one, it could be well made with some more victims... But..."

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Donna Grant

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

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Donna Grant

"Looper is another great film."

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Donna Grant

"As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean."

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Donna Grant

"This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased."

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Donna Grant

"Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in."

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Donna Grant

"I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way."

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Donna Grant

"When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release."

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Donna Grant

"You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again."

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Donna Grant

"I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn."

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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
"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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Ralph Bakshi
"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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