I wouldn't leave Disney to do Disney.

- Ralph Bakshi

Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids,…

- Ralph Bakshi

What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

- Ralph Bakshi

The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only take apart what they allow you to take …

- Ralph Bakshi

I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.

- Ralph Bakshi

I separate cartooning, which is fun and wacky and soulful, from illustration, which is very well-drawn and extremely uptight to look at. There's a di…

- Ralph Bakshi

Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

- Ralph Bakshi

I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.

- Ralph Bakshi

Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical s…

- Ralph Bakshi