Ralph Bakshi
Ralph Bakshi
Ralph Bakshiis an American director of animated and live-action films. In the 1970s, he established an alternative to mainstream animation through independent and adult-oriented productions. Between 1972 and 1992, he directed nine theatrically released feature films, five of which he wrote. He has been involved in numerous television projects as director, writer, producer and animator...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth29 October 1938
CountryUnited States of America
One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.
Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.
My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them.
The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only take apart what they allow you to take apart, you're Disney. Cartooning is a low-class, for-the-public art, just like graffiti art and rap music. Vulgar but believable, that's the line I kept walking.
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.
Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.
It's curtains for you, Mighty Mouse! This gun is so futuristic that even I don't know how it works!
They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.
My good films were independent and my bad films were not.
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.
Every character in each of my movies is a different side of myself.
Someone's been mean to you! Tell me who it is, so I can punch him tastefully.
John [Kricfalusi] is so arrogant. He thinks he's me!
I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.