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Authors
Chuck Jones
American
Director
About the author
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.
Chuck Jones,
American
Director
#Love
#Work
#Will
#Rules
#Skill
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.
Chuck Jones,
American
Director
#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,
American
Director
#Film
#Word
#Laughter
#Joy
Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
Chuck Jones,
American
Director
#World
#Painting
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,
American
Director
#Flowers
#Value
#Birds
The Coyote is limited, as Bugs is limited, by his anatomy.
Chuck Jones,
American
Director
#Bugs
The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.
Chuck Jones,
American
Director
#Individuality
#Animals
The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he's asleep.
Chuck Jones,
American
Director
#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,
American
Director
#Years
#War
#Old
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,
American
Director
#Work
#Thinking
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.
Chuck Jones,
American
Director
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,
American
Director
#Film
#Chance
#Children
#Pleasure
We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
Chuck Jones,
American
Director
#Art
#Change
#Innovation
Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.
Chuck Jones,
American
Director
#Mind
#Key
#Animation
When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.
Chuck Jones,
American
Director
#Judgment
#Justice
#Vengeance
The only thing an adult can give a child is time.
Chuck Jones,
American
Director
#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,
American
Director
#Man
#Idea
#Writer
#Disney
A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.
Chuck Jones,
American
Director
#Work
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.
Chuck Jones,
American
Director
#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,
American
Director
#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,
American
Director
#People
#Age
Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.
Chuck Jones,
American
Director
#People
#Comedy
If you want a midget to look like a baby, don't put a cigar in his mouth.
Chuck Jones,
American
Director
#Want
#Baby
Each character represented a trait that resides in me.
Chuck Jones,
American
Director
#Character
Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.
Chuck Jones,
American
Director
#Animals
Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.
Chuck Jones,
American
Director
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,
American
Director
#Will
#Light
#Catastrophes
#Selling
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,
American
Director
#Bugs
I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.
Chuck Jones,
American
Director
#Bugs
I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.
Chuck Jones,
American
Director
#Reading
I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.
Chuck Jones,
American
Director
#Job
If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.
Chuck Jones,
American
Director
#Character
#Will
#End
Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.
Chuck Jones,
American
Director
#Comedy
#Business