Chuck Jones Quotes

Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.

I look up to Walt Disney and what he has done.

I see Walt Disney as kind of the epitome of a dreamer. He was a very forward thinker.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

I love to be creative and to put flesh onto the ideas that are inside of me. And there are not that many great programs that are coming out through Hollywood, and I'm tired of waiting around for someone to hand me a good script, so I'm going to go and produce something.

There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.

NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just monsters, but philosophy. Really good science fiction like, '2001,' for example, or the first 'Matrix.' But it takes someone who's got a brain and thinks in order to do really good science fiction.

I love jotting down ideas for my blog, so I doodle or take notes on all kinds of stuff that inspires me: the people I meet, boutiques I visit, a florist that just gave me a great idea for an interior-design project, things like that.

I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

I might be into writing... I'd like to try it someday. I always come up with some good ideas.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

I tend to have an endless number of ideas for writing projects. I don't necessarily say that as a good thing. Maybe it's a good thing, but I have ideas for all kinds of projects: contemporary novels, graphic novels, anything that happens to go through my mind.

A good writer knows that if her style and perceptions are really cooking, she can bring anything off. It's okay, of course, for novelists to depict bland, average families living bland, average lives in bland, average towns. But it isn't okay when those novelists don't outshine their bland, average subjects.

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told my brain to think of a book, and it did.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.

A good writer is always a people watcher.

I'm kind of an idea guy.

I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.