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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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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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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In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.
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It is wisdom about God for those who believe that he is all things and in all, and wisdom about nature for the man who accepts the statement found in the Christian Bible that God cannot be measured or discovered, and that darkness is around his pavilion.
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What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure.
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A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.
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My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them.
