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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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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In 1775, no fewer than nine colonies had established churches, ranging from Congregational establishments in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts to Episcopal churches in the southern states from Maryland on down.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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I'm shooting a pilot based on my show. It's a one-camera show. I play myself.
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I think 'The Wire' is my all-time favorite TV show. It's so brilliant, the way it critiques society, and how it handles that everybody who gets power loses their moral code and stops going to the root of the problem and just tries to maintain their own power.
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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The fans treated me royally.
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Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.
