Charles Martin Jones Quotes

When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.

Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

There’s only one test of a great children’s book, or a great children’s film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children’s film, or a great children’s book.

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.

The whole essence of good drawing – and of good thinking, perhaps – is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

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.

The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he’s asleep.

The only thing an adult can give a child is time.

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

The Coyote is limited, as Bugs is limited, by his anatomy.

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.

Painting does what we cannot do – it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

Mark Twain’s Roughing It is a book that many people don’t know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.

If you want a midget to look like a baby, don’t put a cigar in his mouth.

If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.