Chuck Jones Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

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.

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.