A biography for Chuck Joneshasn’t been written yet.
“Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.”
“Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.”
“There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.”
“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.”
“Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.”
“I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.”
“I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.”
“Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.”
“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 Coyote is limited, as Bugs is limited, by his anatomy.”
“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 read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.”
“I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation.”
“Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.”
“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.”
“A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.”