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Chuck Jones Quotes


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

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.

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

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

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

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.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

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

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

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.

I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation.

I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.

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

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

If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.

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

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

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

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

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.