I don't think about the gender thing very much. But when I speak at schools, I've had female students say to me afterwards, "I never envisioned myself being a director, since I've never seen women do it." But after seeing… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that are female and I wonder, 'Where did they all go?' People have brought it up, asking me, 'What… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 the same people who've been working on the other films and we all had things we couldn't do, and had to leave on the table. We just couldn't achieve them before. This time we have multiple… — 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. It was great and she said "I want to be just like you when I grow up and direct movies". And that just made me choke up. It was so cute, and the reason why she's… — 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 panda village. The spirit realm, having no gravity, having this massive space, allowed us to do huge action shots. All that we just couldn't do before. We just couldn't get the scale, we'd have to cheat… — 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 Image
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