Philip Bradley Bird (born September 24, 1957) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He has had a career spanning over four decades in both live-action and animation. Bird was born in Montana and grew up in Oregon. He developed an interest in the art of animation early on, and completed his first short subject by age 14. Bird sent the film to Walt Disney Productions, leading to an apprenticeship from the studio's Nine Old Men. He attended the California Institute of the Arts in th
I remember one shot in particular in Truffaut's Stolen Kisses (1968) where the camera pans across a street, and there's like 20 different things happening, but nothing's particularly highlighted. That kind of layered reality was something we wanted to achieve.