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
Its all big money, high rent, high prices in New York City now. The poor people completely got rolled over. I've never seen anything like it in my life. It's disgusting.
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.
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.
Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
I'm from the East Coast. I love the city. I love the characters. I love the kind of people we are, the kind other people look at in amazement.
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.
I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.
As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings
I separate cartooning, which is fun and wacky and soulful, from illustration, which is very well-drawn and extremely uptight to look at. There's a difference. I'm a cartoonist.
As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.