Brad Bird famous quotes

04-12-2025

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 #Looks #Levels
Communities need to hear the liberating power of the gospel
-- Brad Bird

#Community #Needs #Liberating
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
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 #Schedules #Lists
My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff
-- Brad Bird

#Kids #Anime #Stuff
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
-- Brad Bird

#Moving #Space #Weight
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
Oh yeah, I'm still employed at Pixar and I love it here.
-- Brad Bird

#Pixar #Yeah #Employed
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
Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.
-- Brad Bird

#Real #Thinking #Names
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
We all have impossible dreams and we do what we can to pursue them...
-- Brad Bird

#Dream #Impossible #Pursue
Oh, I'm just Ego's assistant. It's not anything big.
-- Brad Bird

#Ego #Assistants #Bigs
I admit I'm enthusiastically demanding.
-- Brad Bird

#Enthusiasm
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
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.
-- Brad Bird

#Couple #Littles #Unexpected
To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.
-- Brad Bird

#Mean #Ideas #Interesting
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
And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.
-- Brad Bird

#Culture #Film #Popular Culture
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.
-- Brad Bird

#Sleep #Kids #Wife
I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar.
-- Brad Bird

#Thinking #Next #Pixar
I was not a big comic-book reader.
-- Brad Bird

#Book #Comic #Bigs
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.
-- Brad Bird

#People #Interesting #Come Up
You have to be emotionally attached to what you are doing.
-- Brad Bird
I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.
-- Brad Bird

#Hero #Firefighter #Television
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.
-- Brad Bird

#Moving #Thinking #Space
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 #Great People

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