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Brad Bird

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

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

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Aberjhani

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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Aberjhani

"The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies."

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Aberjhani

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

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Aberjhani

"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

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Aberjhani

"I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other."

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Aberjhani

"Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen."

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Aberjhani

"Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make."

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Aberjhani

"Movies are nice, but there are very few roles for women and most of them are sluts or something."

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Aberjhani

"Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it."

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Aberjhani

"It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it."

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Brad Bird
"If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don't pay attention to how things move through space."

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Brad Bird
"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."

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

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Brad Bird
"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."

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

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Brad Bird
"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."

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Brad Bird
"I have three kids and a wife, and any moments that aren't dedicated to working on this film in some way, or family, are immediately reserved for sleep."

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Brad Bird
"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."

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Brad Bird
"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."

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Brad Bird
"But I don't just see the movie when I see the movie, I see all the great people who worked on it and all their hard work, because they could not have worked any harder."

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