Chuck Jones Quotes
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Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.
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A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.
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In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.
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Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.
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Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.
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Everything on Saturday morning [cartoons] moves alike that's one of the reasons it's not animation. The drawings are different, but everybody acts the same way, their feet move the same way, and everybody runs the same way. It doesn't matter whether it's an alligator or a man or a baby or anything, they all move the same.
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Anyone can say 'no'. It is the first word a child learns and often the first word he speaks. It is a cheap word because it requires no explanation, and many men and women have acquired a reputation for intelligence who know only this word and have used it in place of thought on every occasion.
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An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players. Daffy Duck is to a Buck Rogers story what John McEnroe was to tennis. Personality. That is the key, the drum, the fife. Forget the plot.
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Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.
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Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life
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Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.
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If you were to draw Bugs, the easiest way is to learn how to draw a carrot and then hook a rabbit onto it
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There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.
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Artists don't need criticism, artists need love
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I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.
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The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.
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Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace
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If you make a fool of yourself in front of a cat, he will sneer at you, if you are sober; he will leave the room if you are drunk. If you make a fool of yourself in front a dog, he will make a fool of himself, too.
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Humiliation and indifference, these are conditions every one of us finds unbearable — this is why the Coyote when falling is more concerned with the audience’s opinion of him than he is with the inevitable result of too much gravity.
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Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.
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The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he’s asleep.
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The close-up, according to D.W. Griffith, allows subtle changes of facial expression-the raising of an eyebrow or the flicker of a smile-to become part of the action.
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Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down.
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You have a coyote inside you and you have to get it out
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Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.
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The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds—the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.
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Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.
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Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.
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The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.
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I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation. I let the part of me that is Bugs come to the surface, knowing, with regret, that I can never match his marvelous confidence.
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