My mother said — and I didn’t realize how well it works — when I’d bring a drawing to her, she said, “I don’t look at the drawing. I looked at the child, and if the child was excited, I got excited.” And then we could discuss it. Because we were bringing something that meant something to me as a child. And so she would join in my lassitude, or my excitement, or my frustration. She wasn’t a psychologist, but she did understand this simple matter. Also, it accomplishes the only thing that has any meaning to a little child. The only thing an adult can give a child is time. That’s all, there isn’t anything else. That’s the only thing they need, really, is time. If you give them time, you’ll have to be understanding of them and give them time.
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Chuck Jones
Animator, cartoon director and screenwriter
United States · 1912–2002
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American animation director who worked at Leon Schlesinger Productions and Warner Bros. for some three decades, directing Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig shorts and creating Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, Marvin the Martian and Pepé Le Pew. He later directed the television specials How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and Horton Hears a Who! and received an Honorary Academy Award in 1996.
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