Quotes by Chuck Jones

About Chuck Jones:

Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio. He directed many classic animated cartoon shorts starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Pepé Le Pew, Porky Pig and a slew of other Warner characters.
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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

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

Chuck Jones

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

Chuck Jones

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

Chuck Jones

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

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

Chuck Jones

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

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.

Chuck Jones

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

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

Chuck Jones

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

Chuck Jones

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

Chuck Jones

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

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

Chuck Jones

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

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

Chuck Jones

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

Chuck Jones

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

Chuck Jones

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

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

Chuck Jones

Author Bio

  • NameChuck Jones
  • DescriptionAmerican animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films
  • BornSeptember 21, 1912
  • DiedFebruary 22, 2002
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Screenwriter; Animator
  • WorksRabbit Fire