Chuck Jones Quotes - Page 3

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.

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.

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.

If you were to draw Bugs, the easiest way is to learn how to draw a carrot and then hook a rabbit onto it

I'm not a believer in putting designers off in an ivory tower. They need to have a voice at the table so they can identify where and why design can make a difference. We also need to understand the business issues. If we don't make our numbers this quarter, we don't earn the right to do something cool the next time.

Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.

Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.

When a young artist asked me for advice on drawing the human foot, I told him, ‘The first thing you must learn is how to take your shoe off, and then how to take your sock off, then prop your leg up carefully on your other knee, take a piece of paper, and draw your foot.’

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.

The name 'Chuck Jones', according to my uncle, limited my choice of profession to second baseman or cartoonist.

In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.

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.

Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down.