Brad Bird Quotes

#1. 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.

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

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#3. Communities need to hear the liberating power of the gospel

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#4. 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.

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

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

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#7. 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.

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

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#9. 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.

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

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#11. 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.

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#12. 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.

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#13. 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.

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#14. 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.

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#15. 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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#16. 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.

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

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#18. 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.

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#19. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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#25. 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.

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#26. 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.

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

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

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

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#30. 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

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#31. I never look back darling. It distracts from the now.

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

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#33. I was not a big comic-book reader.

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#34. 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.

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

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#36. 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.

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#37. 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.

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

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#39. I admit I'm enthusiastically demanding.

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