Quotes by Brad Bird

Brad Bird

American animator, director and screenwriter

Lived from: 1957 -

Category: Movie | Writers (Contemporary)

Born: 24 september 1957

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  • 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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  • Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.
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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.
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  • 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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  • 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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  • If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don't pay attention to how things move through space.
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.
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What are the most famous quotes from Brad Bird?

The two most famous quotes from Brad Bird are:

  • "And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now."
  • "Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one."

When did Brad Bird live?

Brad Bird is still alive and was born in 1957.