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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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.
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One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.
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She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as women judge men - not on the strength of their arguments, and not on their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, the strength of their soul, their compassion, and - ah, this above all - their conversation.
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Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.
