“I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings inste...” — Ralph Bakshi Quote

I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.

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

I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children.

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

If you want to cut crime, if you want to end homelessness, you have to deal with sexual violence, sexual harassment, and domestic violence.

I thought 'Bloodsport' was going to ruin my career when it was first cut and put together. It was a horrible film. I mean, they put it on the shelf for two years. It wasn't until they allowed Jean-Claude to go in and recut the film that everything came together and it worked.

A lot of people that embark on spiritual endeavors tended to, especially in the '60s and '70s, they tended to give up what they had before and cut themselves off from their lives, previous life as it were. But, I don't think that one should do that.

Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.