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Chuck Jones

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

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

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"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."
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