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
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.
Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.
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.
Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.
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 do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'
Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.
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.
[W]hen the coyote falls, he gets up and brushes himself off; it's preservation of dignity. He's humiliated, and it worries him when he ends up looking like an accordion. A coyote isn't much, but it's better than being an accordion.
Artists don't need criticism, artists need love
If you were to draw Bugs, the easiest way is to learn how to draw a carrot and then hook a rabbit onto it
The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.