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1912–2002 United States
Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio.
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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.
A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.
The two most important people in animation are Winsor McCay and Walt Disney, and I'm not sure which should go first.
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 inevitable result of too much gravity.
[W]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 better than being an accordion.
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.