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Brad Bird
Brad Bird
American Director
Born: Sep 24, 1957
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Related authors: David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Spike Lee Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen
Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one. Brad Bird
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Original movies of any size are an endangered species. Brad Bird
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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. Brad Bird
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I think we kind of changed how people did humans in CG animation after. If you look at films before 'Incredibles,' they tended to be photorealistic in a clunky and ugly way, with pores in their skin and too many eyelashes. It's kind of disturbing. And since, the designs have gotten a lot more playful in a lot of people's films, not just ours. Brad Bird
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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. Brad Bird
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I love the house in 'North by Northwest.' Brad Bird
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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. Brad Bird
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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. Brad Bird
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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. Brad Bird
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My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff. Brad Bird
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I was not a big comic-book reader. Brad Bird
Big Reader
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
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I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent. Brad Bird
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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. Brad Bird
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I have three boys. Sometimes my wife and I really have to battle to keep video games from encroaching. Brad Bird
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You hope any film finds its audience and makes enough money that you get to make another one. Brad Bird
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There are a million logical reasons to not make a film, and I think if you get focused on all the critics or money or any of that other stuff, it never leads anywhere good. Brad Bird
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For me, I try as much as possible to just think about being in the movie theatre, having the lights dim, and what would I want to see on the screen. That puts me in the frame of mind that made me want to be in the movie business to begin with. Brad Bird
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Every movie, I find myself adrift at the beginning of the movie, and then I find my way through the dark forest. Brad Bird
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I don't know how anyone ever makes a good movie. It's a miracle every time. Brad Bird
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History is rife with stories of directors who got so obsessed that their films went massively over budget - out of control. Brad Bird
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It's easier to sit and watch TV than it is to get up and read a book. Brad Bird
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The most fun I ever had making a movie was the first 'Incredibles.' Brad Bird
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