Bird On A Wire...

"He'd say, 'If movies didn't exist, what would you do?' And I'd say, 'I'd have to invent them.' " - Brad Bird to his junior high guidance counselor

There's a great interview with Brad Bird over at the LA Times Online today. The Oscar winning writer and director talks about film and how it is dealing with live-action versus animation. It's a interesting dissection of how Bird came on board Pixar's "Ratatouille" and turned it around to become the best reviewed film of 2007. Oh, and it made a bunch of money too...

Give it a looksie.

Story Of The Lamp, So Far...

Variety has a positive review of "The Pixar Story" up that discusses the Leslie Iwerks' documentary film of the little company from Emeryville that could. A rough cut of this played at Comic-Con this week. Unforunately, I didn't get to see it due to a really booked schedule. Go over and give it a read... interesting stuff.

Iwerks, btw is the daughter of Ub Iwerks.