Chuck Jones

“A character is a caricature.”

“The whole essence of good drawing is gesture.”

“The rules of animation are simple: if it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”

“The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give in to peer pressure to be something you're not.”

“So you have to be a bit of a poet. You have to be a bit of a musician. You have to be a bit of a sculptor. You have to be a bit of a writer. You have to be a bit of a director. You have to be a bit of a performer.”

“An animator is an actor with a pencil.”

“Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.”

“The name of the game is to have a lot of fun.”

“Animation isn't the illusion of life; it's the illusion of thought.”

“Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.”

“What you have to do is to get the viewers to be willing to believe in your characters.”

“For a cartoonist to be a cartoonist, he has to be a philosopher; he has to be a sociologist; he has to be a pretty good actor, and he has to be a pretty good writer.”

“We must not confuse distortion with innovation.”

“Humor is the springboard for developing a deeper and more realistic understanding of the world.”