The name 'Chuck Jones', according to my uncle, limited my choice of profession to second baseman or cartoonist.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace

Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

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.

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.