Brad Bird Quotes (28 Quotes)


    And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.

    My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff.

    I was not a big comic-book reader.

    I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar.

    If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don't pay attention to how things move through space.


    I think if you have a really big, heavy person, there's a feeling of an invisible puppeteer jerking them around in space. They don't feel like they are moving themselves.

    I had about the biggest, longest wish list anyone could have, and 99 percent of what I wanted to get on the screen we got on the screen within our schedule and within our budget and within our resources.

    Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won't win is to assume that you will.

    I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.

    You're buying for the benefit of the cottage experience at a fraction of the price.

    But I don't just see the movie when I see the movie, I see all the great people who worked on it and all their hard work, because they could not have worked any harder.

    Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.

    I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.

    Oh yeah, I'm still employed at Pixar and I love it here.

    Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level.

    If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens.

    Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats.

    We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.

    That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes.

    Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

    For the last 25 miles, the adrenalin was pumping it was out of sight, ... You know we wanted to be here, but the closer we got, we got closer to the (unknown).

    Well what's funny is, again, people say they believed what was going on, but again, Bob's hands are about three times bigger than his feet. So these are very caricatured.

    If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more.

    I don't know what's more frightening, being watched by millions of people, or the hundreds of people that are going to be annoyed with me tomorrow for not mentioning them,

    Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected.

    I have three kids and a wife, and any moments that aren't dedicated to working on this film in some way, or family, are immediately reserved for sleep.

    Look, I think if you talk down to a kid or aim specifically at a kid, most kids aren't gonna like it, really, because most kids can feel when you are being patronizing.

    Even in hand drawn animation, humans are widely considered to be the most difficult to execute, because everybody has a feeling for how they move.


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