Chuck Jones
As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.Collection: Character
[W]hen the coyote falls, he gets up and brushes himself off; it's preservation of dignity. He's humiliated, and it worries him when he ends up looking like an accordion. A coyote isn't much, but it's better than being an accordion.Collection: Fall
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.Collection: Communication
A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny.Collection: Doors
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.Collection: Character
Every great artist must begin by learning to draw with the single line, and my advice to young animators is to learn how to live with that razor-sharp instrument or art. An artist who comes to me with eight or ten good drawings of the human figure in simple lines has a good chance of being hired. But I will tell the artist who comes with a bunch of drawings of Bugs Bunny to go back and learn how to draw the human body. An artist who knows that can learn how to draw ANYTHING, including Bugs Bunny.Collection: Art
The road is better than the inn.Collection: Ends
You've got a million bad drawings in you; you better get started.Collection: Drawing
If you want a midget to look like a baby, don’t put a cigar in his mouth.Collection: Baby
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.Collection: Wall
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.Collection: Summer
If you were to draw Bugs, the easiest way is to learn how to draw a carrot and then hook a rabbit onto itCollection: Rabbits
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.Collection: Ivory Tower
The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.Collection: Weather
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.’Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Expression
I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation. I let the part of me that is Bugs come to the surface, knowing, with regret, that I can never match his marvelous confidence.Collection: Regret
Humiliation and indifference, these are conditions every one of us finds unbearable — this is why the Coyote when falling is more concerned with the audience’s opinion of him than he is with the inevitable result of too much gravity.Collection: Fall
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.Collection: Running
The name 'Chuck Jones', according to my uncle, limited my choice of profession to second baseman or cartoonist.Collection: Uncles
Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down.Collection: Expectations
Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplaceCollection: Ordinary