A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.
- Chuck Jones Quote

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 Quote

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.
- Chuck Jones Quote

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.
- Chuck Jones Quote

Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.
- Chuck Jones Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.
- Chuck Jones Quote

If you want a midget to look like a baby, don't put a cigar in his mouth.
- Chuck Jones Quote

In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.
- Chuck Jones Quote

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.
- Chuck Jones Quote

Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
- Chuck Jones Quote

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 Quote

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.
- Chuck Jones Quote

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 Quote

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.
- Chuck Jones Quote

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.
- Chuck Jones Quote

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
- Chuck Jones Quote

When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.
- Chuck Jones Quote