Chuck Jones

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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

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…

— Chuck Jones

Every great artist must begin by learning to draw with the single line, and my advice to young animators is to learn…

— Chuck Jones

When a young artist asked me for advice on drawing the human foot, I told him, ‘The first thing you must learn…

— Chuck Jones

In timing a film, we used to assume that sneaks move slowly. This was great for animators-thirty-six to forty-eight drawings for a…

— Chuck Jones

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

— Chuck Jones

The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it…

— 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…

— Chuck Jones

Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.

— Chuck Jones

The name 'Chuck Jones', according to my uncle, limited my choice of profession to second baseman or cartoonist.

— Chuck Jones

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

— Chuck Jones

Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

— Chuck Jones

I'm not a believer in putting designers off in an ivory tower. They need to have a voice at the table so…

— Chuck Jones