Chuck Jones Quotes

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

Work, Good, Thinking

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

Work, Live, Together

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

Sunshine, Human, Try

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

Effort, Anyone, Criticize

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.
Chuck Jones

Creativity, Anxiety

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

Find, Older, Less

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

Justice, Hard, Tell

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

Real, Comedy, Situations

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

Put, Baby, Mouth

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

Time, Husband, Wife

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

Great, Children, Book

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.
Chuck Jones

Business, Comedy, Stringent

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

Good, Great, Idea

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.
Chuck Jones

Character, Resides, Trait

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

Quite, Early, Convinced

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

Confused, Color, Fog

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

Situation, Longer, Bugs

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

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

Three, Reading, Started

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

Job, Wanted, Somebody

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

Good, Character, End

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

Great, War, Old

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

Art, Laughter, Said

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

Age, Book, Anybody

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

Laughter, Joy, Strange

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: September 21, 1912

Died: February 22, 2002

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