Love Quote by Brad Bird

Calling a rival studio "the most extraordinary" is less starry-eyed praise than a calculated signal flare. Brad Bird has always been the rare animation insider who talks like an auteur: restless, craft-obsessed, allergic to complacency. So when he singles out Pixar, he is endorsing a production culture as much as a brand. "Extraordinary" lands as code for rigor: story rooms that actually rewrite, directors who get time to fail safely, a pipeline where technical innovation is supposed to serve emotion instead of distracting from it.

The second sentence does even more work. "I would love to do my next project with Pixar" is polite, but it is also a public negotiation. Bird is making himself available while reminding everyone (including other studios) that top-tier animation talent has leverage. It reads as aspirational and mildly transactional: put me in the environment that respects ambition, and I'll deliver at that level.

Context matters: Bird emerged from an industry long split between factory-line animation and the newer "director-driven" model Pixar helped popularize. Saying this aloud positions him on the side of the latter, and it flatters Pixar in a way that also flatters Bird. The subtext is confidence wrapped in collegiality: his next film deserves the best shop, and he intends to be in the room where the medium is being redefined.