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
Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down.
Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace
Artists don't need criticism, artists need love
The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.
The name 'Chuck Jones', according to my uncle, limited my choice of profession to second baseman or cartoonist.
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.
Everything on Saturday morning [cartoons] moves alike that's one of the reasons it's not animation. The drawings are different, but everybody acts the same way, their feet move the same way, and everybody runs the same way. It doesn't matter whether it's an alligator or a man or a baby or anything, they all move the same.
You have a coyote inside you and you have to get it out
The close-up, according to D.W. Griffith, allows subtle changes of facial expression-the raising of an eyebrow or the flicker of a smile-to become part of the action.
You've got a million bad drawings in you; you better get started.
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.
Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color. Fog is about the color of the insides of an old split wet summer cottage mattress; smog is the color and consistency of a wet potato chip soaked in a motorman’s glove.
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.
The road is better than the end.