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
pixar yeah stills
Oh yeah, I'm still employed at Pixar and I love it here.
drawing goal als
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.
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.
hero firefighter television
I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.
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.
team struggle together
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.
book comic bigs
I was not a big comic-book reader.
interesting people come-up
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.
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
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.