Picked up Looney Tunes: Golden Collection Volume Three today. Am currently going through the extras on the first disc. Loved this Chuck Jones quote from the ‘Chuck Amuck‘ documentary, which is just one of the many bonus features here, though I remember watching it on VHS with my Hoy House roommates back in 1991:
I think you must learn — If you’re in any filmmaking, you must respect the single frame, and there are 24 of those per second. And in my opinion, if you don’t respect that single frame, you’re in the same boat with a musician who does not respect an eighth note or a sixteenth. . . . You have to find the smallest unit and you have to love it and believe that that one will make a difference. One frame, to me, will make the difference whether anything’s funny or not.
Reminds me of this, from the VIFF 2005 write-up on Arvo Pärt: 24 Preludes for a Fugue:
In “Janitor” Pärt explains he once asked a janitor how a composer should write music. The response was, “He has to love each sound, each single sound.” This film reveals a composer who does exactly that, working with great discipline and dedication to do so.
As with frames and sounds, so with words. Gotta love ’em.
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