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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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things."

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Donna Grant

"If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'."

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Donna Grant

"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."

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Donna Grant

"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."

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Donna Grant

"Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President."

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Donna Grant

"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."

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Donna Grant

"Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep 'em down in L.A."

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Brad Bird
"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."

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

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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
"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 level."

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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
"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."

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Brad Bird
"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."

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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
"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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