Charles Martin Jones Quotes

• I’m still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.

  Charles Martin Jones

• I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

  Charles Martin Jones

• I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.

  Charles Martin Jones

• I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation.

  Charles Martin Jones

• Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don’t try selling sunshine and light – you’ll go broke.

  Charles Martin Jones

• Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.

  Charles Martin Jones

• Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.

  Charles Martin Jones

• Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

  Charles Martin Jones

• Disney was not a good animator, he didn’t draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.

  Charles Martin Jones

• Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

  Charles Martin Jones

• Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

  Charles Martin Jones

• Anyone can negatively criticize – it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.

  Charles Martin Jones

• Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.

  Charles Martin Jones

• A lion’s work hours are only when he’s hungry; once he’s satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.

  Charles Martin Jones

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Birth:	21st September, 1912
Death:	22nd February, 2002
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Animator, Cartoonist, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

About

Charles Martin Jones was born in Spokane, Washington. He was an American animator, cartoonist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films. He directed many classic animated cartoon shorts starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Pepé Le Pew, Porky Pig and a slew of other Warner characters. Jones was nominated for an Academy Award eight times and won three times, receiving awards for the cartoons For Scent-imental Reasons, So Much for So Little, and The Dot and the Line. He received an Honorary Academy Award in 1996 for his work in the animation industry.

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