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

Chuck Jones

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.

Chuck Jones

The Coyote is limited, as Bugs is limited, by his anatomy.

Chuck Jones

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

Chuck Jones

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.

Chuck Jones

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

Chuck Jones

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

Chuck Jones

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.

Chuck Jones

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.

Chuck Jones

If you make a fool of yourself in front of a cat, he will sneer at you, if you are sober; he will leave the room if you are drunk. If you make a fool of yourself in front a dog, he will make a fool of himself, too.

Chuck Jones

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.

Chuck Jones

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

Chuck Jones

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.

Chuck Jones

The only thing an adult can give a child is time.

Chuck Jones

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

Chuck Jones

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

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