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
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.
Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.
I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.
Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.
I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.
Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down.
Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace
Artists don't need criticism, artists need love
The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.
The name 'Chuck Jones', according to my uncle, limited my choice of profession to second baseman or cartoonist.
In timing a film, we used to assume that sneaks move slowly. This was great for animators-thirty-six to forty-eight drawings for a single step-but it was sheer hell for the pace of the picture. So the rapid tiptoe was invented.
Everything on Saturday morning [cartoons] moves alike that's one of the reasons it's not animation. The drawings are different, but everybody acts the same way, their feet move the same way, and everybody runs the same way. It doesn't matter whether it's an alligator or a man or a baby or anything, they all move the same.
You have a coyote inside you and you have to get it out