Brad Bird Quotes
-
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 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.
→ -
I think the industry tends to like to think in the narrow sort of mindset of a businessman, and businessman absolutes, and movies really exist in a much grayer region of dreams and stuff like that, and instinct is prized in movies, it's not prized with the businessmen in movies, but movies themselves often reward instinct rather than pie charts.
→ -
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.
→ -
When you assemble animation teams the way you do a live-action film, you're often struggling a bit to get a cohesive team together, so if you have a team that works well together, you're hoping for another film so that you can refine the team.
→ -
I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar.
→ -
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.
→ -
I absolutely think that hand-drawn animation is valid and I actually hope to do one in the future with a large budget.
→ -
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.
→ -
To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.
→ -
Oh, I'm just Ego's assistant. It's not anything big.
→ -
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.
→ -
Communities need to hear the liberating power of the gospel
→ -
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.
→ -
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
→ -
Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.
→ -
Anything that makes movie-going a magnificent experience, I'm all for.
→ -
Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats.
→ -
If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don't pay attention to how things move through space.
→ -
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.
→ -
And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.
→ -
You have to be emotionally attached to what you are doing.
→ -
I admit I'm enthusiastically demanding.
→ -
My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff
→ -
You're buying for the benefit of the cottage experience at a fraction of the price.
→ -
Oh yeah, I'm still employed at Pixar and I love it here.
→ -
I was not a big comic-book reader.
→
Related Authors
-
George Clooney Actor -
Lee Unkrich Film director -
Andrew Stanton Film director -
Michael Giacchino Film Score Composer -
Peter Sohn Animator -
Patton Oswalt Comedian -
Jason Lee Actor -
Samuel L. Jackson Film actor -
Britt Robertson Film actress -
Craig T. Nelson Actor -
Sarah Vowell Author -
Pete Docter Film director -
Simon Pegg Actor -
Jeremy Renner Actor -
Damon Lindelof Television writer -
Holly Hunter Actress -
John Lasseter Animator -
Paula Patton Film actress -
Tom Cruise Film actor -
John Ratzenberger Actor