I never heard one word in Pixar about, 'Will kids get this?' I don't think it's important that they get everything. I think that it's important that they get engaged, interested.
Interpretation
Engagement and interest are more critical than a complete understanding of content, especially in children's media.
In this quote, Brad Bird emphasizes the importance of engaging children through storytelling and creativity rather than focusing solely on whether they understand every detail. He believes that fostering interest and curiosity is essential for learning and enjoying experiences, particularly in the context of filmmaking for younger audiences.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about educational methods in classrooms.
For me, I try as much as possible to just think about being in the movie theatre, having the lights dim, and what would I want to see on the screen. That puts me in the frame of mind that made me want to be in the movie business to begin with.
Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.
A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
Practice is absolutely necessary. You may sit down and listen to me by the hour every day, but if you do not practice, you will not get one step further. It all depends on practice.
You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity
In teaching, the other main problem related to type is the students’ interest. Intuitives and sensing types differ greatly in what they find interesting in any subject even if they like, that is, are interested in, the same subjects. Intuitives like the principle, the theory, the why. Sensing types like the practical application, the what and the how.
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