Ralph Bakshi Quotes
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Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.
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I find that with period pieces, you're sort of able to really take advantage of what's around you because prop-wise, wardrobe-wise and location-wise, it's all so specific due to that time.
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Nothing is absolute in security.
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People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.
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It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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There are films like 'Interstellar' where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX - it's an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can't replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland.
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
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All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen.
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A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.
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This is a lifetime job. You don't look at it, you know, now and then. It doesn't really matter. When the market comes down, then I buy my land very cheaply, so I make my money on that.
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Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.
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We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of like a really cool kind of re-imagining.
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Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.
