You have to be emotionally attached to what you are doing.

- Brad Bird

When caricaturist, Al Hirschfeld, did a drawing of a celebrity, it often looked more like the person than the person did. That's our goal in animatio…

- 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 ther…

- Brad Bird

To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.

- Brad Bird

Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.

- Brad Bird

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.

- Brad Bird

Speaking personally, I want my films to make money, but money is just fuel for the rocket. What I really want to do is to go somewhere. I don't want …

- Brad Bird

Anything that makes movie-going a magnificent experience, I'm all for.

- Brad Bird

I think the industry tends to like to think in the narrow sort of mindset of a businessman, and businessman absolutes, and movies really exist in a m…

- Brad Bird