I always noticed that in art school, that grief was considered more profound than happiness. But why? Brad Bird More Quotes by Brad Bird More Quotes From Brad Bird Communities need to hear the liberating power of the gospel Brad Bird liberatingcommunityneeds Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one. Brad Bird animationillusioncreating To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head. Brad Bird meanideasinteresting We all have impossible dreams and we do what we can to pursue them. Brad Bird pursuedreamimpossible 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 scheduleslistswish 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 tryingpeoplethinking 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 rocketsfuelwant 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 piedreamthinking Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats. Brad Bird governmentboysmoving If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don't pay attention to how things move through space. Brad Bird spacelooksmoving You have to be emotionally attached to what you are doing. Brad Bird Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real. Brad Bird realnamesthinking 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 harderhard-workpeople Anything that makes movie-going a magnificent experience, I'm all for. Brad Bird magnificent And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now. Brad Bird popular-culturefilmculture I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar. Brad Bird pixarnextthinking 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 levelshandspeople I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent. Brad Bird firefighterherotelevision 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. Brad Bird teamstruggletogether 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 animationhandsthinking
