Brad Bird Quotes

There's always a risk if you don't do things the way you've done things before.

Only dead fish go with the flow.

That routine thing is not comforting to me. It's the opposite to that.

I would not be very comfortable doing the regular thing which we see on TV.

Not a lot of people take advantage of that opportunity of being different. A lot of kids that are highly touted coming out of high school, like, doing the traditional thing and going to the blue bloods and all that, but I was always different growing up.

I always go against the odds.

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

If you are doing what everyone else is doing, there is probably not an opportunity there.

Sometimes it's bad to do something you've never done before.

When people are used to you doing something, they want you to stay in that lane.

All the things that people like me supposedly don't do, I do.

I don't really feel comfortable unless I'm slightly uncomfortable. I don't want to play myself all the time.

What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.

If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.

You want to stand out and be unique and do something different. I always try to zig when they zag - I guess it's a football term, but it applies to a lot of different areas of life.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

Throughout my entire life, I constantly tried to fight normality. I hate it. I hate the idea of it. I hate routine. I hate anything that feels remotely regular or right.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

The more unsettling the more I feel at home.

I long for typical days, but rarely get them any more.

If you want to do something different, you're going to come up against a lot of naysayers.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Whatever is conventional, I am the opposite. So if you want to walk in a straight line, I am going to walk in zigzags. If you want to throw a 1-2, I'll throw a 2-1.

Stand not against the stream.