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Animation isn't the illusion of life it is life

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
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Spokane
Washington
Charles Martin Jones
Charles M. Jones
Illusion
Life
Animation

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I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.
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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 weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.
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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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When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.
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Each character represented a trait that resides in me.
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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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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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The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come 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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Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.
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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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Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down.
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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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The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he’s asleep.
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You have a coyote inside you and you have to get it out
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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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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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