Chuck Jones Quotes
"Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter."
- Chuck Jones
(Related: Art, Comedy, Laughter)
"Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about."
- Chuck Jones
(Related: Film, Joy, Laughter, Word)
"Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane."
- Chuck Jones
(Related: Painting, World)
"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."
- Chuck Jones
(Related: Birds, Flowers, Value)
"The Coyote is limited, as Bugs is limited, by his anatomy."
- Chuck Jones
(Related: Bugs)
"The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans."
- Chuck Jones
(Related: Animals, Individuality)
"The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he's asleep."
- Chuck Jones
(Related: Time, Wife, Husband)
"In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War."
- Chuck Jones
(Related: War, Old, Years)
"The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be."
- Chuck Jones
(Related: Work, Thinking)
"There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think."
- Chuck Jones
"There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book."
- Chuck Jones
(Related: Chance, Children, Film, Pleasure)
"We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change."
- Chuck Jones
(Related: Art, Change, Innovation)
"Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you."
- Chuck Jones
(Related: Animation, Key, Mind)
"When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins."
- Chuck Jones
(Related: Judgment, Justice, Vengeance)
"The only thing an adult can give a child is time."
- Chuck Jones
(Related: Time)
"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."
- Chuck Jones
(Related: Idea, Disney, Man, Writer)
"A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together."
- Chuck Jones
(Related: Work)
"Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity."
- Chuck Jones
(Related: Creativity, Anxiety)
"Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires."
- Chuck Jones
(Related: Effort)
"Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age."
- Chuck Jones
(Related: Age, People)
"Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations."
- Chuck Jones
(Related: People, Comedy)
"If you want a midget to look like a baby, don't put a cigar in his mouth."
- Chuck Jones
(Related: Baby, Want)
"Each character represented a trait that resides in me."
- Chuck Jones
(Related: Character)
"Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities."
- Chuck Jones
(Related: Animals)
"Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color."
- Chuck Jones
"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."
- Chuck Jones
(Related: Selling, Catastrophes, Light, Will)
"I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation."
- Chuck Jones
(Related: Bugs)
"I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny."
- Chuck Jones
(Related: Bugs)
"I started reading when I was about three, a little over three."
- Chuck Jones
(Related: Reading)
"I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do."
- Chuck Jones
(Related: Job)
"If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings."
- Chuck Jones
(Related: Character, End, Will)
"Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business."
- Chuck Jones
(Related: Business, Comedy)