A collection of popular quotes and thoughts by Chuck Jones on discipline, lion, sunshine, comedy, love, work, will, character, unexpected, vengeance, drawings and critics.
39 Interesting Quotes By Chuck Jones That Will Jog Your Memory
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Animator, Filmmaker, Cartoonist, Author, Artist, & Screenwriter
Chuck Jones was an august American filmmaker, screenwriter, animator, artist, cartoonist, and author. He is recognized for his work with the distinguished Warner Bros. Cartoons on the 'Merrie Melodies' shorts and 'Looney Tunes.' He is accredited with directing, writing and producing a number of classic animated cartoon shorts that starred ‘Daffy Duck,’ ‘the Three Bears,’ ‘Michigan J.Frog,’ ‘Bugs Bunny,’ ‘Pepe Le Pew,’ and many others. He also produced the television adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas!’ and ‘Tom and Jerry shorts.’ He received a number of awards and accolades for his work in the animation industry, including ‘Honorary Academy Award.’ We have rounded some famous quotations and sayings by Chuck Jones that are sure to delight you. Read through the insightful quotes and thoughts by 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
A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.
Chuck Jones
Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.
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
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.
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 time a wife listens to her husband is when he's asleep.
Chuck Jones
The only thing an adult can give a child is time.
Chuck Jones
The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.
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
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.
Chuck Jones
In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.
Chuck Jones
I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.
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
Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.
Chuck Jones
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.
Chuck Jones
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
Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
Chuck Jones
The Coyote is limited, as Bugs is limited, by his anatomy.
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
We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
Chuck Jones
If you want a midget to look like a baby, don't put a cigar in his mouth.
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.
