- At one time wanted to make an animated feature-film adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's 'Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas'.
- Visualizes a scene by listening to music, which usually plays over the scene in the finished film.
- In the mid 1980's when Bakshi was depressed following the lack of support for his personal projects (i.e. Hey Good Lookin' (1982)) he read "Catcher in the Rye" and connected intensely with Holden Caulfield, and even figured out a way to make the narrative work cinematically by keeping the mental hospital scenes in live-action and the flashbacks animated. Bakshi wrote a letter to Salinger, a famous recluse who turned down many offers to adapt the book, where he poured out his heart about the book and his personal life. Bakshi ended up receiving a response in a letter from Salinger, where he appreciated the director's dedication and vision, but politely declined the offer since he could not see it becoming a film. Going through this process helped Bakshi get out of his creative rut, and he went on to do more work in the late 80's and early 90's before going into (semi) retirement from motion pictures.
- Greatly dislikes and is very critical of Don Bluth's films.
- He left Hollywood and filmmaking to spend his remaining life painting pictures, but during the back-to-back recording for a guest appearance on Ren & Stimpy 'Adult Party Cartoon' (2003) and the DVD commentary for his 1977 film Wizards (1977), he was bit by the animation bug again, and has recently (2005) begun work on his latest feature, currently titled Last Days of Coney Island (2015).
- Comedian Richard Pryor, film directors Spike Lee and Quentin Tarantino and Wu-Tang Clan are credited as fans of Bakshi's film, Coonskin (1974). Tarantino wrote the forward to the hardcover book "Unfiltered: The Complete Ralph Bakshi".
- Father of Preston Bakshi, Eddie Bakshi, Mark Bakshi and Victoria Bakshi. Mark is president of Paramount production.
- Grandfather of Miles Bakshi and Nina Zoe Bakshi.
- Is an avid fan of Jean-Luc Godard.
- He had an interest of doing a film of "The Catcher in the Rye". He intended to shoot the story's bracketing sequences in live action and to animate the core flashback scenes. J.D. Salinger rejected this offer (as well as the other offers that were made beforehand to adapt the book).
- Father-in-law of Jonathan Yudis.
- Is friends with Dave Spafford.
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