Chuck Jones Quotes - Page 2

The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he’s asleep.

In timing a film, we used to assume that sneaks move slowly. This was great for animators-thirty-six to forty-eight drawings for a single step-but it was sheer hell for the pace of the picture. So the rapid tiptoe was invented.

As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.

I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.

Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.

Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

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.

A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny.

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.

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.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

Every great artist must begin by learning to draw with the single line, and my advice to young animators is to learn how to live with that razor-sharp instrument or art. An artist who comes to me with eight or ten good drawings of the human figure in simple lines has a good chance of being hired. But I will tell the artist who comes with a bunch of drawings of Bugs Bunny to go back and learn how to draw the human body. An artist who knows that can learn how to draw ANYTHING, including Bugs Bunny.

Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.

When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

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.

A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.

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.

If you want a midget to look like a baby, don’t put a cigar in his mouth.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

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.

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color. Fog is about the color of the insides of an old split wet summer cottage mattress; smog is the color and consistency of a wet potato chip soaked in a motorman’s glove.

Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.