Brad Bird
Brad Bird
Phillip Bradley "Brad" Birdis an American filmmaker, known for both animated and live-action films...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth24 September 1957
CityKalispell, MT
CountryUnited States of America
annoyed millions people tomorrow watched
I don't know what's more frightening, being watched by millions of people, or the hundreds of people that are going to be annoyed with me tomorrow for not mentioning them,
american-cartoonist base family interested powers
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.
american-cartoonist both centrist definitely parties
I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.
american-cartoonist assume direction guarantee might surest time turn win
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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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.
real thinking names
Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.
pixar yeah stills
Oh yeah, I'm still employed at Pixar and I love it here.
moving boys government
Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats.
thinking people trying
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.
dream impossible pursue
We all have impossible dreams and we do what we can to pursue them...
ego assistants bigs
Oh, I'm just Ego's assistant. It's not anything big.
enthusiasm
I admit I'm enthusiastically demanding.
drawing goal als
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.
funny hands feet
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.