The Bird man of "1906"

Brad Bird -- double nominated director and writer of "Ratatouille" -- isn't looking to rabbit out of animation now that he's making a name for himself as a director at Pixar.

Ideally, the man wants to jump between animation and live action, he said at the Oscar Nominees Luncheon.

"Believe me, some people do say, 'When are you going to make a real movie?' There's definitely that sort of feeling in the air sometimes, but my ideal career would be a career where I can move back and forth between the mediums and even do different genres. I want to do a western, I want to do a musical, I want to do a scary movie, I want to do a political comedy. I want to do a little bit of everything. So I just feel it's all part of the same salad bar."

His next project, "1906," is indeed live action. It focuses around events before and following the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.