Brad Bird
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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
pixar yeah stills
Oh yeah, I'm still employed at Pixar and I love it here.
moving hands feelings
Even in hand drawn animation, humans are widely considered to be the most difficult to execute, because everybody has a feeling for how they move.
moving thinking space
I think if you have a really big, heavy person, there's a feeling of an invisible puppeteer jerking them around in space. They don't feel like they are moving themselves.
book comic bigs
I was not a big comic-book reader.
moving space weight
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
kids anime stuff
My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff
mean ideas interesting
To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.
adrenalin closer last
For the last 25 miles, the adrenalin was pumping; it was out of sight, ... You know we wanted to be here, but the closer we got, we got closer to the (unknown).
annoyed millions people tomorrow watched
I don't know what's more frightening, being watched by millions of people, or the hundreds of people that are going to be annoyed with me tomorrow for not mentioning them,
aim american-cartoonist gonna kid kids talk
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.
community needs liberating
Communities need to hear the liberating power of the gospel
creating illusion animation
Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.
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.
magnificent
Anything that makes movie-going a magnificent experience, I'm all for.