What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.
Ralph BakshiMost of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.
Ralph BakshiThe 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 apart, you're Disney. Cartooning is a low-class, for-the-public art, just like graffiti art and rap music. Vulgar but believable, that's the line I kept walking.
Ralph BakshiI'm from the East Coast. I love the city. I love the characters. I love the kind of people we are, the kind other people look at in amazement.
Ralph Bakshi