Ralph Bakshi Quotes
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To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
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I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.
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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
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There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.
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Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
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My name can raise money on a small-budget film.
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I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
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I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene.
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There are some races more cultured and advanced and ennobled by education than others; but there are no races nobler than others. All are equally destined for freedom.
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Night doesn't fall in Rome; it rises from the city's heart, from the gloomy little alleys and courtyards where the sun never gets much more than a brief look-in, and then, like the mist from the Tiber, it creeps over the rooftops and spreads up into the hills.
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I respect the media. But periodically things come up. Like the guy in Toronto [CP24 Interview]. This is what I run into, also. Everybody that helps you is not necessarily your friend. And everybody that fights you is not necessarily your enemy. So you always have to be on guard.
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Film has to describe and show.
