Quotes from Ralph Bakshi

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.

My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them.

Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!

I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

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.

Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.

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.

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.

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