Chuck Jones Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.”

“There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.”

“Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.”

“The only thing an adult can give a child is time.”

“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.”

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

“The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.”

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

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