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Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

~Brad Bird

Topics: About Animation Create Creating Illusion Life You

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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.

~Brad Bird

Topics: About Couple Expect Expect The Unexpected Going Got Little Little Time Off Ready Sleeve Still Take Talk Them Time Tricks Unexpected Up Well Working

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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

Topics: Around Assume Because Brain Direction Every Every Time Go Going Guarantee How Just Might Out Started Surest Think Thinking Time Turn Way Will Win You I Think

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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

Topics: Anyway Archetypes Base Family Interested Part Personal Powers Story Stuff Tried I Tried

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I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.

~Brad Bird

Topics: Absurd Both Both Parties Definitely Feel Like Parties

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I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.

~Brad Bird

Topics: Certain Certain Extent Extent Got Heroes Movies Secondhand Television

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Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.

~Brad Bird

Topics: Feel Less Look More Movies Names Naming Other Real Realistic Think Without I Think

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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

Topics: About Again Believed Bigger Bob Feet Funny Going Hands His People People Say Say Than Three Times Very Well

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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

Topics: Analyze Audiences Complicated Doomed Films Hope Make Making Other Ourselves People Recipe See Some Sophisticated Success Then Think Too Try Want Would You I Think

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Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats.

~Brad Bird

Topics: Athletic Boy Bureaucrats Differently Government Guys Middle-Aged Move Than Who Women

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Cartoonist

Born: September 11th, 1957

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