Chuck Jones Quotes
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.
Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.
You can't force inspiration. It's like trying to catch a butterfly with a hoop but no net. If you keep your mind open and receptive, though, one day a butterfly will land on your finger.
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.
A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.
You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'
Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.
Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.
Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.
The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.
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.
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.
We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
All of you here have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone.
As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.
Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.
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.
Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.
A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny.
Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.
I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.
The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.
Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the most virulent and the most self-satisfying.
If you were to draw Bugs, the easiest way is to learn how to draw a carrot and then hook a rabbit onto it
Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.
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.
Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down.
The name 'Chuck Jones', according to my uncle, limited my choice of profession to second baseman or cartoonist.
