All Chuck Jones Quotes
We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
Chuck Jones
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If you want a midget to look like a baby, don't put a cigar in his mouth.
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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.
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In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.
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Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.
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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.
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I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation.
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Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.
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I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.
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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.
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Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.
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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.
Chuck Jones
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The Coyote is limited, as Bugs is limited, by his anatomy.
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