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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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Animation Creating Illusion
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
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
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
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
Anything that makes movie-going a magnificent experience, I’m all for.
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Anything Expensive Magnificent
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
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
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
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
You have to be emotionally attached to what you are doing.
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Attach Doing Emotion Emotional
We all have impossible dreams and we do what we can to pursue them.
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Dream Impossible Pursue
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
Oh, I’m just Ego’s assistant. It’s not anything big.
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Assistants Bigs Ego
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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People Thinking Trying

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