Chuck Jones

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.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life

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.

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.