Brad Bird
Phillip Bradley Bird is an American filmmaker, animator, and director known for both animated and live-action films. He is best known for writing and directing The Incredibles and its sequel Incredibles 2 at Pixar, as well as Ratatouille and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol. Bird studied at the California Institute of the Arts on a Disney scholarship alongside future Pixar co-founder John Lasseter, and began his professional animation career at Disney before being fired, later joining Pixar where he created some of the studio's most acclaimed films.
“Walt left like half of his estate to fund this institution. And it was that... All of them were hired directly by Disney and Disney animation right out of school. And then Disney fired all of them.”
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