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
hands people done
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.
kids anime stuff
My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff
moving space looks
If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don't pay attention to how things move through space.
mean ideas interesting
To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.
dream thinking pie
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.
couple littles unexpected
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.
magnificent
Anything that makes movie-going a magnificent experience, I'm all for.
wish schedules lists
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.
creating illusion animation
Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.
community needs liberating
Communities need to hear the liberating power of the gospel
rockets fuel want
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
thought-provoking looks levels
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
thinking hands animation
I absolutely think that hand-drawn animation is valid and I actually hope to do one in the future with a large budget.
You have to be emotionally attached to what you are doing.