Brad Bird on animation
Brad Bird9 quotes · See all“Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can’t create it if you don’t have one.”
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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 BirdBrad 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.
Brad BirdBrad Bird I’ve seen Steelheart bleed
Brandon SandersonBrandon Sanderson I had about the biggest, longest wish list anyone could have, and 99 percent of what I wanted to get on the screen we got on the screen within our schedule and within our budget and within our resources.
Brad BirdBrad 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
Brad BirdBrad Bird If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don’t pay attention to how things move through space.
Brad BirdBrad Bird To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.
Brad BirdBrad Bird 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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If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?
William Jennings BryanWilliam Jennings Bryan I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films.
Hayao MiyazakiHayao Miyazaki The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
Walt DisneyWalt Disney Young people are surrounded by virtual things. Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
Hayao MiyazakiHayao Miyazaki Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
Hayao MiyazakiHayao Miyazaki AI animation is, “is an insult to life itself.
Hayao MiyazakiHayao Miyazaki Producing an animation series merely to fill time slots in the broadcast schedule is like generating cultural pollution.
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