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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

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can’t create it if you don’t have one.
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Animation Creating Illusion
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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Couple Littles Unexpected
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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Moving Space Thinking
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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Come Interesting People Up
Anything that makes movie-going a magnificent experience, I’m all for.
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Anything Expensive Magnificent
You have to be emotionally attached to what you are doing.
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Attach Doing Emotion Emotional
I absolutely think that hand-drawn animation is valid and I actually hope to do one in the future with a large budget.
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Animation Hands Thinking
We all have impossible dreams and we do what we can to pursue them.
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Dream Impossible Pursue
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.
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Struggle Team Together
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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Levels Looks Provoking Thought
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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Littles Moving Space
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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Kids Sleep Wife
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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Boys Government Moving
To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.
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Ideas Interesting Mean
If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don’t pay attention to how things move through space.
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Looks Moving Space
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.
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Feelings Hands Moving

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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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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