A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.
Animation is going very well right now. And to a great extent because these young people at Disney that are doing the films.
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.
Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.
As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.
But the voice lives on. As long as Daffy Duck is alive, Leon Schlesinger is there, in his corner of heaven.
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.
Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.
Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.
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.
Each character represented a trait that resides in me.
Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.
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.
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.
I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation.
I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.
I let the part of me that is Bugs come to the surface, knowing, with regret, that I can never match his marvelous confidence.
I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.
I would say my mother had more to do with my education as an artist, if you want to call me that, than anything else.
I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.
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.
In 1933 I went to work for Leon Schlesinger and that's where I stayed for 38 years.
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.
Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.
Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.
Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
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 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.
The Coyote is limited, as Bugs is limited, by his anatomy.
The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.
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 rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.
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 is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.
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.
To give the Coyote a look of anticipatory delight, I draw everything up - the eyes are up, the ears are up, and even the nose is up. When he is defeated, on the other hand, everything turns down.
We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.
When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.
You cannot take anything for granted.
He was also creating cartoons for the internet based on his new character, Thomas Timberwolf.
Like modern cartoon legends, he never retired; he was an active artist and cartoonist up until his last weeks. Through the 1980s and 1990s (and until his death in 2002).
In 1944, He made a political film Hell-Bent for Election for the campaign film for Franklin D. Roosevelt that he directed for UPA.
The staff of the Jones unit was as important to the success of these cartoons as Jones himself.
During the World War II years, Jones worked closely with Theodore Geisel (also known as Dr. Seuss) to create Private Snafu series of Army educational cartoons.
Many of Jones's cartoons of the 1930s and early 1940s were lavishly animated, but audiences and fellow Termite Terrence staff members found them lacking in genuine humor.
His famous Hunter's Trilogy of Rabbit Fire, Rabbit Seasoning and Duck! Rabbit! Duck! (1951-1953), establishing himself as an important innovator and storyteller.
His intellectualism, writing ability, and capacity for self-analysis made him a historical authority as well as a major contributor to the development of animation throughout the 20th century.
His seven decades of artwork is living on into the 21st century though major cartoons networks all around the world, as well as via the internet.
In the early 1990s, he created short animated sequences for the movies "Mrs. Doubtfire" and "Stay Tuned."
His original Looney Tunes caricature, Michigan J. Frog, became the trademark character for Channel 11 since the 90s.
He has three grandchildren; three step-grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, a step-son and step-daughter.
At 85, he signed a long term contract with Warner Bros. to supervise the animation department. His thoughts on the contract were "At 85 you can only think ahead for the next 50 years or so."
He used to work with Dr. Seuss into producing many of the cartoons based on Dr. Seuss' books, such as "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", "Lorax", "Green Eggs and Ham", etc.
His first Looney Tunes Characters he created were Pepe le Pew, Hubie and Bertie, the Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, Claude Cat, and others.
He was married to Dorothy Jones since 1935 until she died on February 28, 1978.
He founded his own studio, Chuck Jones Enterprises, and works his last creations until his death in 2002.
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