Brad Bird Quotes

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

Communities need to hear the liberating power of the gospel

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.

We all have impossible dreams and we do what we can to pursue them.

To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.

I absolutely think that hand-drawn animation is valid and I actually hope to do one in the future with a large budget.

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

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

You have to be emotionally attached to what you are doing.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Speaking personally, I want my films to make money, but money is just fuel for the rocket. What I really want to do is to go somewhere. I don't want to just collect more fuel.

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

I was not a big comic-book reader.

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

I admit I'm enthusiastically demanding.

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

Oh, I'm just Ego's assistant. It's not anything big.

When caricaturist, Al Hirschfeld, did a drawing of a celebrity, it often looked more like the person than the person did. That's our goal in animation.

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.

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

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

The problem is that every time people have deviated from the Disney playbook in hand-drawn animation, they've done so with staff that are nowhere near Disney-level talent or Disney-level budgets.

Anything that makes movie-going a magnificent experience, I'm all for.

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.

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.

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

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.