Chuck Jones Quotes

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. Chuck Jones

The only thing an adult can give a child is time. Chuck Jones

The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he’s asleep. Chuck Jones

Animation is going very well right now. And to a great extent because these young people at Disney that are doing the films. Chuck Jones

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

Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the most virulent and the most self-satisfying. Chuck Jones

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

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

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

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