Art of Cinema on Instagram: "Writer, Director of the film, Brad Bird drove his teams hard to be as creative as possible, insisting on greater attention to details and characters than any other previous Pixar Animation Studios production. The teams responded by pumping the film full of references and in-jokes, one of the most noticeable being the villain Syndrome being modelled on Bird. Brad Bird got the idea for this movie in the early 1990s, basing the story on his own experiences trying to bal