Ralph Bakshi

At one time wanted to make an animated feature-film adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's 'Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas'.

I think it's impossible to do [J.R.R. Tolkien]. It's impossible to get the brilliance of what he wrote about -- just the medium, the book, the novel gives you other areas of imagination [that] film can't allow. Film has to describe and show. With the brilliance of his words and his scenes, you imagine whatever you want. I'm sure various people imagine different things.