Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones

A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.

Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones

Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.

Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones

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.

Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones

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.

Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones

Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.

Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones

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.

Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones

When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.

Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones

I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation.

Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.

Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones

In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.

Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones

The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he's asleep.

Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones

I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.

Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones

The Coyote is limited, as Bugs is limited, by his anatomy.

Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones

The only thing an adult can give a child is time.

Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones

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.

Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones

If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.