Chuck Amuck Quotes

“I can’t understand why you’re writing scripts for Bugs Bunny,” the old lady replied with some asperity. “He’s funny enough just as he is.”
― Chuck Jones, Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist

“We are all Daffy Ducks, Woody Aliens, Chaplins, and Coyotes inside. We are all haplessly and hopelessly hopeful. We are all to some extent avaricious, mean, traitorous, envious, jealous—but most of these charming characteristics we manage to keep fairly well buried and under control. If, however, one breaks out, we become tragedians. If we keep it under control, we remain comedians.”
― Chuck Jones, Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist

“The animation director and writer have an enormous advantage here, because we mine ourselves, dredge the Daffy in us to the surface, become Daffy, look at the world through Daffy’s eyes, speak with Daffy’s voice, move with Daffy’s peculiar and unique musculature.”
― Chuck Jones, Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist

“Tex’s instruction to an associate, after breaking wind: “Catch that one and paint it green.”
― Chuck Jones, Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist