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Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

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Chuck Jones
Age: 89 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 21
Died: 2002
Died: February 22
Actor
Animation Director
Animator
Comics Artist
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Spokane
Washington
Charles Martin Jones
Charles M. Jones
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I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.
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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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You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'
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Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
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Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace
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Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color. Fog is about the color of the insides of an old split wet summer cottage mattress smog is the color and consistency of a wet potato chip soaked in a motorman’s glove.
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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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I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.
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Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.
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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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Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.
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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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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.
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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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Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
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Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.
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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.
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There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.
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Animation isn't the illusion of life it is life
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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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