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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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"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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Akshay Vasu

"I remember when first, Stripes, and then Animal House came out - which I was really proud of, even though it was kind of loose and quite raucous - there were imitative movies that were not quite as good."

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Akshay Vasu

"I make movies I want to see."

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Akshay Vasu

"I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants."

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Akshay Vasu

"I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations."

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Akshay Vasu

"I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions."

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Akshay Vasu

"There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific."

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Akshay Vasu

"I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites."

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Akshay Vasu

"Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints."

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Akshay Vasu

"Yes was a band where we could explore some of those ideas, but I knew that if I wanted to get into orchestral music and make a living at it, movies seemed to be a perfect spot."

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Akshay Vasu

"I know there's a great deal that Arnold Schwarzenegger could teach me about making movies. There's a great deal I could teach him about the fiscal reforms that are needed - desperately needed - to set California back in good order."

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Ralph Bakshi
"As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks."

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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 draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job."

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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
"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
"I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film."

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Ralph Bakshi
"Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat."

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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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Ralph Bakshi
"I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works."

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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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