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Chuck Jones
11 quotes
“A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door — he's the person who opens a door funny.”
Chuck Jones (1912–2002) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: John Lewell, "The Art of Chuck Jones: John Lewell Interviews the Veteran Hollywood Animator [1982]," in Animation - Art and Industry, ed. Maureen Furniss (John Libby Publishing Ltd., 2009), 134. Jones was paraphrasing E…
“As Norman McLaren said, animation is not a bunch of drawings that move — it's a bunch of drawings of movement.”
Chuck Jones (1912–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The best way, of course, to understand the animator is to see that he parallels the actor. He has the same responsibility a fine actor has. [...] Even the people who write about animation just don't seem to understand that when you have a drawing, you don't have a character. [...] "This is the first Bugs Bunny" has no meaning. It's how Bugs came to stand and move and act, and what his feelings were, and his thoughts, and what kind of personality he was. That developed over a period of time. And you need fine animators to do that.”
Chuck Jones (1912–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 way, their feet move the same way, and everybody runs the same way. It doesn't matter whether it's an alligator or a man or a baby or anything, they all move the same.”
Chuck Jones (1912–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[W]hen the coyote falls, he gets up and brushes himself off; it's preservation of dignity. He's humiliated, and it worries him when he ends up looking like an accordion. A coyote isn't much, but it's better than being an accordion.”
Chuck Jones (1912–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Humiliation and indifference, these are conditions every one of us finds unbearable–this is why the Coyote when falling is more concerned with the audience's opinion of him than he is with the inevitable result of too much gravity.”
Chuck Jones (1912–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stroke of Genius, A Collection of Paintings and Musings on Life, Love and Art (Linda Jones Enterprises, 2007), 78.
“A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.”
Chuck Jones (1912–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stroke of Genius, A Collection of Paintings and Musings on Life, Love and Art (Linda Jones Enterprises, 2007), 88.
“The two most important people in animation are Winsor McCay and Walt Disney, and I'm not sure which should go first.”
Chuck Jones (1912–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quoted in Canemaker, John (2005). Winsor McCay: His Life and Art (Revised ed.). pg. 257. Abrams Books.
“John Lewell: Can you tell us: what exactly was Jack Warner like, as an employer? Chuck Jones: Well, what he was like was nothing! We had nothing to do with Jack Warner. After fifteen years of direction (and the other person present, Friz Ferleng, had directed longer than that) we were finally invited by him to have lunch in the executive dining room. This was reserved for executives and favorite directors. Jack Warner was there. And Harry Warner was there. Jack didn't say very much to us. He was talking to other people about other things. But Harry Warner said: "The only thing I know about our cartoon department is that we make Mickey Mouse." Well, that was a little startling. It was the early 1950s, for God's sake! And so when we left, I said: "Don't worry, Mr Warner, we'll continue to make good Mickey Mouses!" And he patted me on the back.”
Chuck Jones (1912–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Animation in itself is an art form, and that's the point I think always needs clarification. True animation exists without any background, or any color, or any sound, or anything else; it exists in your hand. And you can take it and flip it. [...] What makes animation is the fact that you have a series of drawings that move. You don't even have to have a camera, you see; animation exists without it. If you want to broaden your audience, or make it more colorful or add music, then you put it under a camera one frame at a time, and then you run it at the same speed as you flip it, and then you have animation. If it depends basically upon soundtrack, or basically upon music, or color, graphic design, or anything else to sustain itself, then it is not unique to animation.”
Chuck Jones (1912–2002) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Joe Adamson, "Witty Birds and Well-Drawn Cats: An Interview with Chuck Jones [1971]", in Chuck Jones: conversations, ed. Chuck Jones and Maureen Furniss (Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2005), 63.
“I don’t mind people admiring me if they want to but I don’t think it’s very logical. It’s not like I was St. George knocking off some dumb dragon or anything like that. First of all, you’re talking about something I did a long, long time ago. Secondly, we were doing things that were not expected to last a lifetime. We figured they’d last about three years and then disappear forever. Remember there was no television back then and no place for the cartoons to go after they left the theaters.But I’m not trying to demean what we did. I always took the work very seriously and I’m proud to have been associated with the work we did. It’s just that adulation is impractical and makes me uncomfortable. Nobody noticed us back then. Nobody called us geniuses. And we didn’t feel like artists. We were just trying to make people laugh.”
Chuck Jones (1912–2002) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Orange County Register, October 22, 1989