Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation

00:00:09 I'm a red-hot sportsman after wild game.

00:04:14 As I became a student of animation, it was his timing.

00:07:20 I discovered that it didn't matter what they looked like.

00:10:24 ...is calling for somebody else to come along...

00:13:37 "The Rover Boys are Tom, Dick, and Larry...

00:16:15 But when Chuck is directing, somehow the characters have...

00:19:35 Of course, you know this means war.

00:22:51 All right, wise guy, where am I?

00:26:16 Joe, come right over, please. I need your help immediately.

00:29:16 What is it? What is it?

00:32:36 Breakfast in bed for Pa.

00:37:15 ...respect for Isaac Newton, that really makes them even funnier.

00:40:40 ...for every shot, every character.

00:44:05 ...and rapport with your audience.

00:47:19 ... and you want to hang onto it for as long as possible...

00:50:23 The animator is an actor, but he acts on the direction of the director.

00:54:23 The little kitty falls into the mixing bowl...

00:58:26 ...of course they're funny, but they're not that far off.

01:01:54 You can't change the timing of it.

01:05:31 It was kind of back and forth all the way through that.

01:08:48 ...he really was almost predicting design styles.

01:11:35 And this squiggle comes in and is just so cool and like that...

01:14:53 ...for us in trying to make a live action version...

01:18:19 ... so it was a fortuitous opportunity for both of us...