Chuck Jones was a famous Director from USA, who lived between September 21, 1912 and February 22, 2002. He/she became 89 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac virgo, who is known for Analyzing, Practical, Reflective, Observation, Thoughtful.
Our collection contains 30 quotes who is written / told by Chuck.
"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"
"The only thing an adult can give a child is time"
"I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do"
"I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny"
"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"
"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"
"Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business"
"The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he's asleep"
"Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane"
"In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War"
"Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color"
"Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities"
"There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think"
"Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter"
"Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about"
"Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age"
"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"
"Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations"
"Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires"
"Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity"
"The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans"
"If you want a midget to look like a baby, don't put a cigar in his mouth"
"Each character represented a trait that resides in me"
"A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together"
"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 Coyote is limited, as Bugs is limited, by his anatomy"
"If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings"
"I started reading when I was about three, a little over three"
"I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation"
"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"
