Chuck Jones

"Humiliation and indifference, these are conditions every one of us finds unbearable–this is why the Coyote when falling is more concerned with the audience's opinion of him than he is with the inevita…"

"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 yo…"

"hen the coyote falls, he gets up and brushes himself off; it's preservation of dignity. He's humiliated, and it worries him when he ends up looking like an accordion. A coyote isn't much, but it's bet…"

"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…"

"Everything on Saturday morning 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 t…"

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

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

"The two most important people in animation are Winsor McCay and Walt Disney, and I'm not sure which should go first."