Chuck Jones

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1912 age 0

   Born

2. 1984 age 72

   CreditGremlins

3. 1987 age 75

   CreditInnerspace

4. 2002 age 89

   Died

• DMDick Miller2 titles
• WSWilliam Schallert2 titles
• JGJerry Goldsmith2 titles
• JDJoe Dante2 titles
• KTKenneth Tobey2 titles
• MFMichael Finnell2 titles
• SSSteven Spielberg1 title
• NKNicky Katt1 title
• JBJonathan Banks1 title
• FMFrances Lee McCain1 title

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• A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door — he's the person who opens a door funny.

  Chuck Jones, CC BY-SA 4.0

• As Norman McLaren said, animation is not a bunch of drawings that move — it's a bunch of drawings of movement.

  Chuck Jones, CC BY-SA 4.0

• John Lewell: Can you tell us: what exactly was Jack Warner like, as an employer?<br>Chuck Jones: Well, what he was like was nothing! We had nothing to do with Jack Warner. After fifteen years of direction (and the other person present, Friz Ferleng, had directed longer than that) we were finally invited by him to have lunch in the executive dining room. This was reserved for executives and favorite directors. Jack Warner was there. And Harry Warner was there. Jack didn't say very much to us. He was talking to other people about other things. But Harry Warner said: "The only thing I know about our cartoon department is that we make Mickey Mouse." Well, that was a little startling. It was the early 1950s, for God's sake! And so when we left, I said: "Don't worry, Mr Warner, we'll continue to make good Mickey Mouses!" And he patted me on the back.

  Chuck Jones, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Animation in itself is an art form, and that's the point I think always needs clarification. True animation exists without any background, or any color, or any sound, or anything else; it exists in your hand. And you can take it and flip it. [...] What makes animation is the fact that you have a series of drawings that move. You don't even have to have a camera, you see; animation exists without it. If you want to broaden your audience, or make it more colorful or add music, then you put it under a camera one frame at a time, and then you run it at the same speed as you flip it, and then you have animation. If it depends basically upon soundtrack, or basically upon music, or color, graphic design, or anything else to sustain itself, then it is not unique to animation.

  Chuck Jones, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The best way, of course, to understand the animator is to see that he parallels the actor. He has the same responsibility a fine actor has. [...] Even the people who write about animation just don't seem to understand that when you have a drawing, you don't have a character. [...] "This is the first Bugs Bunny" has no meaning. It's how Bugs came to stand and move and act, and what his feelings were, and his thoughts, and what kind of personality he was. That developed over a period of time. And you need fine animators to do that.

  Chuck Jones, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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.

  Chuck Jones, CC BY-SA 4.0