Chuck Jones Quotes

To direct a genuinely animated film, you're really having meetings and discussing what you want with animators who then go off and produce one shot at a time that you look at and comment on.

I'm interested in animation. I actually feel like I've learned so much about the process how to make an animated movie.

I made tons of films. I did animation for my friends' films. I animated scenes just for the fun of it. Most of my stuff was bad, but I had fun, and I tried everything I knew to get better.

The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

Throughout my career, when I was finished with the drawing for one film I would go up to the story department and help develop sequences. Sometimes these were for scenes that I would animate later on.

The thing that I enjoy about animation is the fact that it is unbridled, and there are no boundaries; when you are in the room, you don't have to focus on your clothing, make-up, hair, your choreography or your blocking; you really do have total freedom.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

Any type of animation, it could be really super crude or very sophisticated, it doesn't mean anything if we don't make this point in this shot, this one here and this one here. There's the saying, 'One shot, one thought.' It's pretty much a true way to go.

Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.

I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.

Animation had been done before, but stories were never told.

It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.

Animation is incredibly difficult - much like doing a giant sweeping fantasy novel.

I've always been a fan of animation. As a kid, I used to watch a lot of the Saturday-morning cartoons, and I was always a fan of even claymation and that whole medium.

Coming from the world of animation, every single line counts; every single gesture counts. You put thought into every single one of those things and the way a frame is composed.

Doing animation is great fun. It's like a different world.

I think all directors should be animators.

I think I might do an animated film next. I'm serious.

My livelihood depends on the art of animators.

I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.

I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.

It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character.

I was mentored by great Disney animators at the end of their careers.

When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' called 'The Art of Animation.' It was this weird revelation for me, because I hadn't considered that people actually get paid to make cartoons.