Quotes from Chuck Jones

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The close-up, according to D.W. Griffith, allows subtle changes of facial expression-the raising of an eyebrow or the flicker of a smile-to become part of the action.

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life

Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

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

Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.

Artists don't need criticism, artists need love

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