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
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.
I think it was the intent of both Washington Township and North Central to bring in as qualified of a coach as we could,
Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
H-P was in the dog house and in the 'show-me mode,' and it's really starting to show. I felt that after speaking with management and seeing some results that we were early on in the turnaround cycle.