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.

Brad Bird

And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.

Brad Bird

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

Brad Bird

Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won't win is to assume that you will.

Brad Bird

That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes.

Brad Bird

Oh yeah, I'm still employed at Pixar and I love it here.

Brad Bird

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

Brad Bird

I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar.

Brad Bird

My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff.

Brad Bird

If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don't pay attention to how things move through space.

Brad Bird

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.

Brad Bird

I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.

Brad Bird

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.

Brad 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 Bird

Well what's funny is, again, people say they believed what was going on, but again, Bob's hands are about three times bigger than his feet. So these are very caricatured.

Brad Bird

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 Bird

I was not a big comic-book reader.

Brad Bird

But I don't just see the movie when I see the movie, I see all the great people who worked on it and all their hard work, because they could not have worked any harder.

Brad Bird

Look, I think if you talk down to a kid or aim specifically at a kid, most kids aren't gonna like it, really, because most kids can feel when you are being patronizing.

Brad Bird

Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats.

Brad Bird

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.

Brad Bird

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

Brad Bird

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.

Brad Bird

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.

Brad Bird

We're making a commercial Hindi film catering to all types of audiences.

Sanjay Dutt

I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.

Paul Mazursky

Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them.

Claudette Colbert

What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place.

Stephen Greenblatt

Brad Bird

Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.

Ted Kotcheff

Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well.

Jimmy Buffett

We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.

Harold Ramis

Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright.

Andy Partridge

Though I am still very vulnerable to audiences - and it happens all the time - where for some reason the energy doesn't connect and, since the film is very personal, obviously I am made to feel very vulnerable by that.

Atom Egoyan

I don't pay attention to target audiences and therefore I often hear that I am a ratings killer, somebody who fundamentally doesn't care whether one person is watching or an entire soccer stadium.

Alexander Kluge

I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.

Dario Argento

I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again.

Johnny Vegas

For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.

David Cassidy

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

Sinclair Lewis

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

Roland Joffe

The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.

Edward Albee

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

Janis Joplin

The sound is the key; audiences will accept visual discontinuity much more easily than they'll accept jumps in the sound. If the track makes sense, you can do almost anything visually.

Paul Hirsch

Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.

Randy Bachman

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think.

Dorothy Kilgallen

Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.

Wendy Hiller

I lose tons of stuff on the cutting room floor. For Scary Movie 3, for example, we had a lot of Matrix spoofs, a Hulk scene, and some of that stuff just doesn't hold up - it's too much plot, audiences just didn't want to hear about it.

David Zucker