Ralph Bakshi Quotes

Doing an animation is nothing like anything you could ever experience. You get to be a kid again and just play dress up in a movie studio.

Storytelling, in print or speech, needs vital energy.

The great thing about animation is it's like the radio. I used to do lots of radio when I was a kid, and you get to play parts you would never get to play ordinarily.

We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting.

There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it.

Pixar is not about computers, it's about people.

I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

There has always been this narrator in me - I loved ideas, and part of the great love affair I would have with ideas consisted of talking about them.

Dance is my passion.

Dance has such an intensity to it. You become, in a way, an intense person.

Since I was a kid, I've always been obsessed with animation.

Dance is my passion, and I feel so strongly about it that just watching people dance lights up my face and makes me come alive.

Ghibli is about craftsmanship. They draw characters and put life in it.

Dance is about portraying and telling a story and whether that be two males, two females, a group of guys, or a group of girls, it doesn't matter as long as the story is beautiful.

Dance excites me.

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.

You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.

Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It's just part of the arsenal of many things available to a storyteller. Revelation, for example.

What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.

Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.

I get passionate about certain subjects, and then I'll write a whole play around it.

Storytelling is what lights my fire.

The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.