Chuck Jones Quotes

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.

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.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

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 have a coyote inside you and you have to get it out

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

An animator is an actor with a pencil.

The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he’s asleep.

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.

If you were to draw Bugs, the easiest way is to learn how to draw a carrot and then hook a rabbit onto it

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.

I'm not a believer in putting designers off in an ivory tower. They need to have a voice at the table so they can identify where and why design can make a difference. We also need to understand the business issues. If we don't make our numbers this quarter, we don't earn the right to do something cool the next time.

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life

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