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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.
Chuck Jones
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Chuck Jones
Age: 89 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 21
Died: 2002
Died: February 22
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Spokane
Washington
Charles Martin Jones
Charles M. Jones
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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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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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The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he’s asleep.
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Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
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Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.
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Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.
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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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The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.
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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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Each character represented a trait that resides in me.
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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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When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.
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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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Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.
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Animation isn't the illusion of life it is life
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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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There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.
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You have a coyote inside you and you have to get it out
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The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.
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