Chuck Jones

“In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.”

“Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.”

“We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.”

“Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.”

“If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.”

“Each character represented a trait that resides in me.”

“I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.”

“The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he's asleep.”

“Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.”

“When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.”

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

“Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.”

“The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.”

“If you want a midget to look like a baby, don't put a cigar in his mouth.”

“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.”