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 More Quotes by Brad Bird More Quotes From Brad Bird Communities need to hear the liberating power of the gospel Brad Bird liberating community needs Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one. Brad Bird animation illusion creating To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head. Brad Bird mean ideas interesting We all have impossible dreams and we do what we can to pursue them. Brad Bird pursue dream impossible 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 schedules lists wish 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 trying people thinking 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 rockets fuel want 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 pie dream thinking Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats. Brad Bird government boys moving If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don't pay attention to how things move through space. Brad Bird space looks moving 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 real names thinking 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 harder hard-work people 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-culture film culture I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar. Brad Bird pixar next thinking 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 levels hands people I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent. Brad Bird firefighter hero television 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 team struggle together 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 animation hands thinking
