Mark Twain’s Roughing It is a book that many people don’t know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age. – Chuck Jones
I’m still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do. – 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
Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about. – 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
Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations. – Chuck Jones
Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities. – 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
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. – 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
The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans. – Chuck Jones
Anyone can negatively criticize – it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires. – Chuck Jones
Painting does what we cannot do – it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane. – 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
