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The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he’s asleep.
Chuck Jones
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Chuck Jones
Age: 89 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 21
Died: 2002
Died: February 22
Actor
Animation Director
Animator
Comics Artist
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Spokane
Washington
Charles Martin Jones
Charles M. Jones
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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.
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Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.
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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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Each character represented a trait that resides in me.
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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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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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We must not confuse distortion with innovation distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
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Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.
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Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.
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You have a coyote inside you and you have to get it out
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In timing a film, we used to assume that sneaks move slowly. This was great for animators-thirty-six to forty-eight drawings for a single step-but it was sheer hell for the pace of the picture. So the rapid tiptoe was invented.
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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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An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players. Daffy Duck is to a Buck Rogers story what John McEnroe was to tennis. Personality. That is the key, the drum, the fife. Forget the plot.
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Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.
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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.
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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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I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.
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