Chuck Jones
A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.Collection: Work
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.Collection: Work
Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.Collection: Age
Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.
I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.
Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.
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.
When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.
The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.
Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.
Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.
Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.
I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.
Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.
Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.
Each character represented a trait that resides in me.
Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.
I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation.
I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.
If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.
If you want a midget to look like a baby, don't put a cigar in his mouth.
In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.
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.
The Coyote is limited, as Bugs is limited, by his anatomy.
The only thing an adult can give a child is time.
The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he's asleep.
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.
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.
We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is lifeCollection: Illusion
Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.Collection: Want
Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Inspiration
All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.Collection: Should
An animator is an actor with a pencil.Collection: Actors
Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.Collection: Mean
Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.Collection: Ordinary
You have a coyote inside you and you have to get it outCollection: Coyotes
Artists don't need criticism, artists need loveCollection: Artist
Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.Collection: Art
You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'Collection: Suffering
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.Collection: Drawing
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.Collection: Dog
The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he’s asleep.Collection: Husband
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.Collection: Moving