[W]hen the coyote falls, he gets up and brushes himself off; its prese — Chuck Jones

"A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door — hes the person who opens a door funny."

"As Norman McLaren said, animation is not a bunch of drawings that move — its a bunch of drawings of movement."

"Everything on Saturday morning [cartoons] moves alike—thats one of the reasons its 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 doesnt matter whether its an alligator or a man or a baby or anything, they all move the same."

"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 dont seem to understand that when you have a drawing, you dont have a character. [...] "This is the first Bugs Bunny" has no meaning. Its 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."

"John Lewell: Can you tell us: what exactly was Jack Warner like, as an employer? 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 didnt 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 Gods sake! And so when we left, I said: "Dont worry, Mr Warner, well continue to make good Mickey Mouses!" And he patted me on the back."

"Animation in itself is an art form, and thats 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 dont 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."