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
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.
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.
The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he’s asleep.
When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.
Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.
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.
Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.
I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.
Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.
I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.