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Chuck Jones
American
Director
Born:
Sep 21
,
1912
Died:
Feb 22
,
2002
Comedy
Good
Great
Me
Work
You
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A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.
Chuck Jones
Lion
Work
Together
Live
Satisfied
Once
Hungry
Only
Prey
He
Hours
Predator
Peacefully
Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.
Chuck Jones
People
Comedy
Unusual
Real
Real People
Situations
Farce
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.
Chuck Jones
Work
Love
You
Yourself
Simple
Seriously
Will
Pour
Whatever
Rules
Out
Take
Never
Come
Skill
Your
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.
Chuck Jones
Buy
You
Sunshine
Light
Try
Will
Broke
Bucket
Go
Line
Up
Selling
Human
Human Beings
Miles
Beings
Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.
Chuck Jones
Business
Comedy
Stringent
Very
If you want a midget to look like a baby, don't put a cigar in his mouth.
Chuck Jones
You
Mouth
Baby
Put
Like
Look
His
Want
Midget
Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.
Chuck Jones
Confused
Fog
Easily
Color
Should
Separated
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.
Chuck Jones
Long
Think
Willingness
Absolutely
Inevitability
Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.
Chuck Jones
Modicum
Negatively
Criticize
Cheapest
Because
Comment
Effort
Anyone
Requires
Suggestion
The only thing an adult can give a child is time.
Chuck Jones
Time
Give
Only
Adult
Child
The Only Thing
Thing
The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he's asleep.
Chuck Jones
Time
Wife
Husband
Only
Only Time
He
Listens
Asleep
Her
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.
Chuck Jones
Creativity
Anxiety
Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
Chuck Jones
World
Painting
We Cannot
Three-Dimensional
Does
Cannot
Plane
Brings
Two-Dimensional
Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.
Chuck Jones
Me
Animals
Distinct
Quite
Experiences
Personalities
Convinced
Early
I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation.
Chuck Jones
Situation
Think
About
He
Longer
Come
Know
Well
Bugs
Doing
Any
I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.
Chuck Jones
Me
Job
Somebody
Pay
Astonished
Would
Still
Offer
Wanted
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.
Chuck Jones
Me
Noise
Value
Smell
Birds
Once
About
Dried
Rattling
He
Wrote
Were
Chickens
Author
Wall
Unexpected
Taught
Against
Henry
Flowers
We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
Chuck Jones
Art
Change
Innovation
Confuse
Beneficial
Distortion
Must
Useless
Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.
Chuck Jones
You
Key
Mind
Drawings
Directing
Animation
Well
Doing
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