Brad Bird Quotes

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• Communities need to hear the liberating power of the gospel

  Brad Bird

  Community, Needs, Liberating

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

  Brad Bird

  Creating, Illusion, Animation

  "The 77th Annual Academy Awards". Music, www.imdb.com. 2005.

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

  Brad Bird

  Mean, Ideas, Interesting

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

  Brad Bird

  Dream, Impossible, Pursue

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

  Brad Bird

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• 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.

  Brad Bird

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• 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.

  Brad Bird

  Drawing, Goal, Als

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

  Brad Bird

  Real, Thinking, Names

  Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. March 9, 2005.

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• 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.

  Brad Bird

  Fuel, Want, Rockets

  "Innovation lessons from Pixar: An interview with Oscar-winning director Brad Bird" by Hayagreeva Rao, www.brandknewmag.com. January 16, 2017.

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

  Brad Bird

  Magnificent

  "Director Brad Bird Talks Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, IMAX, The Incredibles Sequel, and a Lot More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 20, 2011.

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

  Brad Bird

  Hero, Firefighter, Television

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• 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.

  Brad Bird

  Hard Work, People, Harder

  Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. March 9, 2005.

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• 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

  Brad Bird

  Thought Provoking, Levels, Looks

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• 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.

  Brad Bird

  Hands, People, Levels

  Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. October 1, 2015.

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

  Brad Bird

  Moving, Boys, Government

  Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. March 5, 2003.

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

  Brad Bird

  Moving, Space, Looks

  Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. March 9, 2005.

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• 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.

  Brad Bird

  Wish, Lists, Schedules

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

  Brad Bird

  Cottages, Benefits, Buying

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• 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.

  Brad Bird

  Dream, Thinking, Pie

  "Brad Bird Talks 'Iron Giant: Signature Edition', The Original Ending, And More". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. October 1, 2015.

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

  Brad Bird

  Thinking, Hands, Animation

  "Brad Bird Hopes to Make another Hand-Drawn Animated Film". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. September 17, 2015.

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

  Brad Bird

  Pixar, Yeah, Employed

  Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. March 9, 2005.

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• I admit I'm enthusiastically demanding.

  Brad Bird

  Enthusiasm

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

  Brad Bird

  Kids, Anime, Stuff

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• 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.

  Brad Bird

  Moving, Hands, Feelings

  Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. March 9, 2005.

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• 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.

  Brad Bird

  Funny, Hands, Feet

  Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. March 9, 2005.

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