The close-up, according to D.W. Griffith, allows subtle changes of facial expression – the raising of an eyebrow or the flicker of a smile – to become part of the action. (ang.)
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Chuck Jones słynne cytaty
The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out. (ang.)
„Jeśli zaczynasz z postacią, prawdopodobnie skończysz z dobrym rysunkiem.”
If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings. (ang.)
„Kiedy osądzają krytycy, trudno powiedzieć, gdzie kończy się sprawiedliwość a zaczyna zemsta.”
When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins. (ang.)
„Jedynym czasem, kiedy żona słucha swojego męża jest ten, kiedy on śpi.”
The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he's asleep. (ang.)
We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change. (ang.)
Chuck Jones cytaty
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. (ang.)
„Nie ucierpisz, jeśli zdecydujesz: „to jest tak”, zamiast pytać: „dlaczego jest w ten sposób?””
You do not suffer if you decide "that’s the way it is" rather than "why is it this way"? (ang.)
„Każda postać prezentuje jakąś cechę, która we mnie tkwi.”
Each character represented a trait that resides in me. (ang.)
Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations. (ang.)
When a young artist asked me for advice on drawing the human foot, I told him, 'The first thing you must learn is how to take your shoe off, and then how to take your sock off, then prop your leg up carefully on your other knee, take a piece of paper, and draw your foot. (ang.)
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. (ang.)
Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about. (ang.)
„Jeśli chcesz by karzeł wyglądał jak dziecko, nie wkładaj mu cygara do ust.”
If you want a midget to look like a baby, don’t put a cigar in his mouth. (ang.)
Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the most virulent and the most self-satisfying. (ang.)
The name "Chuck Jones", according to my uncle, limited my choice of profession to second baseman or cartoonist. (ang.)
The Coyote is limited, as Bugs is limited, by his anatomy. To give the Coyote a look of anticipatory delight, I draw everything up – the eyes are up, the ears are up, and even the nose is up. When he is defeated, on the other hand, everything turns down. You can’t do that as dramatically with human beings, although the emotions expressed are fully human. (ang.)
The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans. Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities. (ang.)
[A] lion’s work hours are only when he’s hungry; once he’s satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together. (ang.)
Painting does what we cannot do – it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane. (ang.)
Anyone can negatively criticize – it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires. (ang.)
„Nie ma absolutnie żadnej konieczności, dopóki jest ochota do myślenia.”
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think. (ang.)
The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds – the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall. (ang.)
„Synoptyk jest potępiany nie tylko za niepowodzenia prognozy, jest potępiany za samą pogodę.”
The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself. (ang.)
Chuck Jones: Cytaty po angielsku
Adamson, "Witty Birds and Well-Drawn Cats", 53.
Adamson, "Witty Birds and Well-Drawn Cats", 61.
Chuck Jones, Stroke of Genius, A Collection of Paintings and Musings on Life, Love and Art (Linda Jones Enterprises, 2007), 78.
quoted in Canemaker, John (2005). Winsor McCay: His Life and Art (Revised ed.). pg. 257. Abrams Books.
Adamson, "Witty Birds and Well-Drawn Cats", 64.
Lewell, "The Art of Chuck Jones", 137.
“A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door — he's the person who opens a door funny.”
John Lewell, "The Art of Chuck Jones: John Lewell Interviews the Veteran Hollywood Animator [1982]," in Animation - Art and Industry, ed. Maureen Furniss (John Libby Publishing Ltd., 2009), 134. Jones was paraphrasing Ed Wynn who was in turn paraphrasing Fred Allen.
Źródło: “A comic says funny things; a comedian says things funny”, Barry Popik, November 10, 2015, January 7, 2017 http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/a_comic_says_funny_things/,
Orange County Register, October 22, 1989
And he patted me on the back.
Lewell, "The Art of Chuck Jones", 139.
Joe Adamson, "Witty Birds and Well-Drawn Cats: An Interview with Chuck Jones [1971]", in Chuck Jones: conversations, ed. Chuck Jones and Maureen Furniss (Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2005), 63.