Fall Quotes by Chuck Jones

If you were to draw Bugs, the easiest way is to learn how to draw a carrot and then hook a rabbit onto it

— Chuck Jones

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

— Chuck Jones

An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players.…

— Chuck Jones

You have a coyote inside you and you have to get it out

— Chuck Jones

Everything on Saturday morning [cartoons] moves alike that's one of the reasons it's not animation. The drawings are different, but everybody acts the same…

— Chuck Jones

Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.

— Chuck Jones

You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'

— Chuck Jones

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

— Chuck Jones

Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the most virulent…

— Chuck Jones

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…

— Chuck Jones

As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.

— Chuck Jones

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

— Chuck Jones