Going into live action, the perception I had was that to be a director, you had to be loud, you had be physically fit, wear cool hats, have a beard, and yell, 'Action!' really loud. And I'm none of those… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums. — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share
Tigress is my alternate personality, especially with children. I love animation because you get to do things you don't normally get to. — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share
If you only do what you can do, you'll never be more than you are now.I never thought i'd be where I am now,… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share
We always try to make the very best movie when we're working on and we can only think one at a time. We want… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share
I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share
You have hundreds of artists you're dealing with across the world and the scale of this movie [Kung Fu Panda] was insane - we… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share
If you have a movie that doesn't strive to go to a certain emotional point, you can do anything and it will be fine… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share
We actually tried to put in [Kung Fu Panda 3] all the things we wanted to put into the first two films. We're all… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share
8 year old young girl came up to me when I went to speak at an elementary school, and she gave me a drawing.… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share
We have those new environments [during Kung Fu Panda 3] that give a scale to the movie, that are the spirit realm and the… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share
A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush. — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share
I think the one thing specifically that is most consistent, is that we want to harken back to martial arts movies because that's kind… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share
One of the things we love about Po [Kung Fu Panda] is that he's vulnerable. He's someone that we can all identify with because… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share
Growing up, my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn't know anything about cameras. I didn't know… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share
