Ralph Bakshi Quotes
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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I learn something in the interviews from time to time.
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What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.
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If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
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Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.
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Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
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The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.
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While I deeply admire actors who deeply prepare, it's just not something I do.
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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
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Every religion there's something foul going on.
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Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.
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I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.
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When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.
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Imaginatively challenged folks, for whom crossing a state line amounted to foreign travel, could not conceive that the gray-blue-eyes inspecting them had, over the past year, similarly scrutinized Nandi warriors, Arab mullahs, Magyar landowners, French marshals, Prussian academics, and practically every monarch or minister of consequence in Europe--not to mention the maquettes in Rodin's studio, and whatever dark truths flickered in the gaze of dying lions.
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When I'm looking for hot button answers to tough questions, I don't look to congressman or my mayor. I say, 'What would Miss U.S.A. have to say about this?'
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There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'
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My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them.
