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.

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.

The road is better than the inn.

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

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.

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

All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.