All Jennifer Yuh Nelson Quotes
- Sometimes, you just have to go in there and bowl people over with your sheer force of will. Bowl
- It's like being the general of an army [directing a film]. You send people out to die. Army
- A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush. Animation
- I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums. Furniture
- I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing. Aggressive
- When you make a movie, it's just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else. Becomes
- Every movie goes through that U-shape where you start with 'Oh that's a great idea. I love it.' Everything's possible and then you face 'Oh,… Bad
- 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 how… Afford
- 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… Afterwards
- 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 of… Age
- 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 and… Certain
- Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for them, and making sure they can lose… Actor
- 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… All