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
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If you were to draw Bugs, the easiest way is to learn how to draw a carrot and then hook a rabbit onto it
I think it was the intent of both Washington Township and North Central to bring in as qualified of a coach as we could,
Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
The only thing an adult can give a child is time.
The Coyote is limited, as Bugs is limited, by his anatomy.
Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the most virulent and the most self-satisfying.
The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.
Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.
If you want a midget to look like a baby, don’t put a cigar in his mouth.
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.
A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.
When a young artist asked me for advice on drawing the human foot, I told him, ‘The first thing you must learn is how to take your shoe off, and then how to take your sock off, then prop your leg up carefully on your other knee, take a piece of paper, and draw your foot.’
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.