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

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.
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

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.
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

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.
Chuck Jones

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

Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.
Chuck Jones

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


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

I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.
Chuck Jones

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.
Chuck Jones

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

If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.
Chuck Jones

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

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

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

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