Chuck Jones Quotes - Page 3

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• Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.

  Chuck Jones

  Animal, Personality, Convinced

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• If you were to draw Bugs, the easiest way is to learn how to draw a carrot and then hook a rabbit onto it

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  Rabbits, Hook, Way

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• I'm not a believer in putting designers off in an ivory tower. They need to have a voice at the table so they can identify where and why design can make a difference. We also need to understand the business issues. If we don't make our numbers this quarter, we don't earn the right to do something cool the next time.

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  Ivory Tower, Voice, Differences

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• The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.

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  Weather, Weathermen

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

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  Keys, Drawing, Mind

  Chuck Jones, Maureen Furniss (2005). “Chuck Jones: Conversations”, p.166, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

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  Book, People, Age

  Chuck Jones, Maureen Furniss (2005). “Chuck Jones: Conversations”, p.158, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When a young artist asked me for advice on drawing the human foot, I told him, ‘The first thing you must learn is how to take your shoe off, and then how to take your sock off, then prop your leg up carefully on your other knee, take a piece of paper, and draw your foot.’

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  Artist, Shoes, Drawing

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• The close-up, according to D.W. Griffith, allows subtle changes of facial expression-the raising of an eyebrow or the flicker of a smile-to become part of the action.

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  Expression, Eyebrows, Action

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• I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation. I let the part of me that is Bugs come to the surface, knowing, with regret, that I can never match his marvelous confidence.

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  Regret, Thinking, Knowing

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• Humiliation and indifference, these are conditions every one of us finds unbearable — this is why the Coyote when falling is more concerned with the audience’s opinion of him than he is with the inevitable result of too much gravity.

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  Fall, Coyotes, Too Much

  "Stroke of Genius, A Collection of Paintings and Musings on Life, Love and Art". Book by Chuck Jones, p. 78, 2007.

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• Everything on Saturday morning [cartoons] moves alike that's one of the reasons it's not animation. The drawings are different, but everybody acts the same way, their feet move the same way, and everybody runs the same way. It doesn't matter whether it's an alligator or a man or a baby or anything, they all move the same.

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  Running, Baby, Morning

  "Witty Birds and Well-Drawn Cats: An Interview with Chuck Jones" by Joe Adamson, 1971.

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

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  War, Years, Radio

  "Oscar for Lifetime Achievement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• The name 'Chuck Jones', according to my uncle, limited my choice of profession to second baseman or cartoonist.

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  Uncles, Names, Choices

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• Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down.

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  Expectations, Degrees, Results

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• Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace

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  Ordinary, Esoteric, Commonplace

  Chuck Jones (1999). “Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist”, p.23, Macmillan

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