As an artist, I want to ...

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
 Ralph Bakshi

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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 stage structure.
 Ralph Bakshi
Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.
 Ralph Bakshi