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Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

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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
Stringent
Comedy
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There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.
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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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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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Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
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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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Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.
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You can't force inspiration. It's like trying to catch a butterfly with a hoop but no net. If you keep your mind open and receptive, though, one day a butterfly will land on your finger.
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Each character represented a trait that resides in me.
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When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.
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The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he’s asleep.
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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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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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