Brad Bird
We all have impossible dreams and we do what we can to pursue them.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Drawing
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.Collection: Fuel
Anything that makes movie-going a magnificent experience, I'm all for.Collection: Magnificent
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 levelCollection: Thought Provoking
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.Collection: Hands
You're buying for the benefit of the cottage experience at a fraction of the price.Collection: Cottages
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.Collection: Dream
I absolutely think that hand-drawn animation is valid and I actually hope to do one in the future with a large budget.Collection: Thinking
I admit I'm enthusiastically demanding.Collection: Enthusiasm
My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuffCollection: Kids
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.Collection: Moving
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.Collection: Team
Oh, I'm just Ego's assistant. It's not anything big.Collection: Ego