Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones
Charles Martin "Chuck" Joneswas an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio. He directed many classic animated cartoon shorts starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Pepé Le Pew, Porky Pig and a slew of other Warner characters...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth21 September 1912
CitySpokane, WA
CountryUnited States of America
An animator is an actor with a pencil.
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.
Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.
Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace
Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.
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.
The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he’s asleep.
A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.
You've got a million bad drawings in you; you better get started.
The name 'Chuck Jones', according to my uncle, limited my choice of profession to second baseman or cartoonist.
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.
You have a coyote inside you and you have to get it out
Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.