Brad Bird

“The best way to complain is to make things.”

“The first rule of animation is, you can do anything.”

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

“To make something new, you have to be willing to get a little bit lost.”

“I'm a storyteller. That's what I am. I'm not a 'children's' storyteller. I'm a storyteller.”

“You are who you choose to be.”

“Your identity is your most valuable possession. Protect it.”

“I feel like the medium of animation is treated as a genre. It's not a genre. It's a medium.”

“If you focus on what you've left behind, you will never be able to see what lies ahead.”

“In my experience, the young are not always right. But they are never wrong about feeling that they are being patronized.”

“When everyone's super... no one will be.”

“The only thing predictable about life is its unpredictability.”

“A good meal is like a symphony of flavors, where each note plays its part.”

“People think of animation as a kids' medium, but it's really a medium for anyone who has a sense of wonder.”

“The minute you start to tell a story, you're building a world. And that's the most important thing.”

“I think the best stories are the ones that are about people, and the things that they care about.”