Chuck Jones quotes Born: 09/21/1912 Died: 02/22/2002 Country: usa

• Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity (Chuck Jones) [anxiety/creativity]
• A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together. (Chuck Jones)
• Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity. (Chuck Jones)
• Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires. (Chuck Jones)
• Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business. (Chuck Jones)
• Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations. (Chuck Jones)
• 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. (Chuck Jones)
• Each character represented a trait that resides in me. (Chuck Jones)
• Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities. (Chuck Jones)
• Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color. (Chuck Jones)
• 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. (Chuck Jones)
• I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation. (Chuck Jones)
• I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny. (Chuck Jones)
• I started reading when I was about three, a little over three. (Chuck Jones)
• I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do. (Chuck Jones)
• If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings. (Chuck Jones)
• If you want a midget to look like a baby, don't put a cigar in his mouth. (Chuck Jones)
• In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War. (Chuck Jones)
• Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. (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. (Chuck Jones)
• Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about. (Chuck Jones)
• Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane. (Chuck Jones)
• 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. (Chuck Jones)
• The Coyote is limited, as Bugs is limited, by his anatomy. (Chuck Jones)
• The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans. (Chuck Jones)
• The only thing an adult can give a child is time. (Chuck Jones)
• The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he's asleep. (Chuck Jones)
• 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. (Chuck Jones)
• 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. (Chuck Jones)
• There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think. (Chuck Jones)
• 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. (Chuck Jones)

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