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
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.
Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.
An animator is an actor with a pencil.
A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny.
Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.
An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players. Daffy Duck is to a Buck Rogers story what John McEnroe was to tennis. Personality. That is the key, the drum, the fife. Forget the plot.
You can't force inspiration. It's like trying to catch a butterfly with a hoop but no net. If you keep your mind open and receptive, though, one day a butterfly will land on your finger.
Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.
All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.
Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life
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.
Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.
If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.
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