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
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.’
Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.
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.
You've got a million bad drawings in you; you better get started.
The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.
All of you here have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone.
Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.
If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.
The only thing an adult can give a child is time.
The Coyote is limited, as Bugs is limited, by his anatomy.
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.
If you were to draw Bugs, the easiest way is to learn how to draw a carrot and then hook a rabbit onto it
Anyone can say 'no'. It is the first word a child learns and often the first word he speaks. It is a cheap word because it requires no explanation, and many men and women have acquired a reputation for intelligence who know only this word and have used it in place of thought on every occasion.
The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.