Brad Bird Quotes

Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.

I worked in the story department for years on 'Cars' and 'Toy Story 3.'

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.

When we did 'Toy Story,' that was an all-hands-on-deck situation that really was time-intensive.

To be able to be doing voiceover, and to be able to be doing 'Spider-Man,' it doesn't get much better than that.

I didn't want to be the guy who screwed up 'Toy Story.'

In my opinion, animation will continue to thrive as long as there are children, parents, television, movies and the need to laugh.

I am a proud mother - that's another reason I love doing any kind of animation. When my son was growing up, if he was watching something animated and I was in it, that was way cooler to him than seeing me in a movie.

Between 'Futurama' and 'Simpsons,' I'm able to work with the voices of Michael Jackson, Dustin Hoffman, and the cast of 'Star Trek.' It's great, you know; it's great to work with such talented people.

I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.

Doing an animation is nothing like anything you could ever experience. You get to be a kid again and just play dress up in a movie studio.

'X-Men' or 'Avengers!' I want to be a mutant or an Avenger.

I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.

It's really a dream come true being a WWE Superstar and being in 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.' These are just larger-than-life franchises and great to be a part of.

I'm a big fan of 'Akira,' and I think comics are a great place to tell intelligent, fantastical stories. You can say stuff that you wouldn't be able to in other mediums.

Whatever I had to prove in the 'Flash' world about myself as an actor, I proved as Henry Allen.

I want to be in a Marvel movie. I want to be a superhero.

Scoring animated films, I have the exact same approach and philosophy as I do for a live action. It's all story- and character-driven. I don't care if it's a mouse or Tom Cruise.

Jim Henson once allowed me to visit the Muppets on set and spent an entire day showing me how he and the other puppeteers performed Kermit and all the characters! After that, I was lucky enough to work with both George Lucas and Steven Spielberg on many fun animation projects and learned so much from them.

The biggest idea of a good time for me is making the Batman videos that we did. That is my ideal day. That is exactly what I want to be doing... I like doing cartoons. I like writing things.

I always loved watching films. I've always been active, pretending I was a Power Ranger or a Ninja Turtle. I remember watching 'Toy Story.' I think that was one of my first movies.

As much as I love elements of Spider-Man's past, I don't really want to go back in and retell the Gwen Stacy and Green Goblin story in animation just so I can do my take on it. I don't want to redo the first 'Spider Slayer' story.

The closest encounter I had with films in my childhood was sitting on the lap of my father at a shooting set, and he would say 'rain,' and it started raining, and then he would say 'song,' and people started dancing. I thought I was sitting on God's lap.

I'm really comfortable doing voice-overs, but it's really fun to do animation. Those animation talents are hysterical. They're so good, and they're so amazingly quick on their feet.

My favourite superhero is The Flash!