Quotes from 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.

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.

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

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

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

All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.

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.

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

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.

A fanatic is someone who redoubles his efforts when he has forgotten his aim.

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

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.

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

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.

Humiliation and indifference, these are conditions every one of us finds unbearable — this is why the Coyote when falling is more concerned with the audience's opinion of him than he is with the inevitable result of too much gravity.

You've got a million bad drawings in you; you better get started.

All of you have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone.

The road is better than the end.

I can't understand why you're writing scripts for Bugs Bunny," the old lady replied with some asperity. "He's funny enough just as he is.

We must all start with the believable. That is the essence of our craft. All drama, all comedy, all artistry stems from the believable, which gives us as solid a rock as anyone could ask from which to seek humor.

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

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.