Brad Bird Quotes

If we had to go live action, I'd hold out for Tim Burton to direct.

Many people who have watched 'Pieta' have said my filmmaking has become more objective.

I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas.

My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.

I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want it to look natural because then I would be making a documentary film.

I don't approach films purely in context of genre.

Modeling, for me, isn't about being beautiful but creating something interesting for people to look at and think about.

All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art.

It's the director's job to piece together my performance, his interpretation of my takes, each take, and string them together and make a statement. I'm red paint on a canvas for a painter.

Every filmmaker imbues a movie with their own point of view.

Every director has his own syntax, his own grammar, his own words.

When I was thinking of video ideas for this song, I wanted it to reflect the energy of the music and express the big eye roll that 'Sit Here and Cry' is. I had a very specific visual vision for it, and when I saw Sam Siske's reel, I knew he was going to get it.

I love photography and I love the art of photography. So when I'm working with high-level art photographers, I give them artistic freedom because I want that for myself when it's my turn to do my work and I never try and control it or say I'll only do this or I want it like that.

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, This is real, too.

For film, you know, the Tarantinos and Nolans of the world who are very focused on a certain kind of film aesthetic and a certain kind of presentation, to be honest, that comes from a place of privilege. It comes from a place of always having access to such, but when you ain't never - you can't see it because you can't even get to it.

I like being behind the camera because I can control perception and what people see.

I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is.

I always say writing is like dreaming, shooting is like living, and editing is like murder, because you take all these gifts that actors give you, and you cut them.