Jennifer Yuh Nelson

I always want to do a big finale.

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

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

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…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

We always try to make the very best movie when we're working on and we can only think one at a time.…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real,…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

You have hundreds of artists you're dealing with across the world and the scale of this movie [Kung Fu Panda] was insane…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

If you have a movie that doesn't strive to go to a certain emotional point, you can do anything and it will…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

We actually tried to put in [Kung Fu Panda 3] all the things we wanted to put into the first two films.…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

8 year old young girl came up to me when I went to speak at an elementary school, and she gave me…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

We have those new environments [during Kung Fu Panda 3] that give a scale to the movie, that are the spirit realm…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

I think the one thing specifically that is most consistent, is that we want to harken back to martial arts movies because…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

One of the things we love about Po [Kung Fu Panda] is that he's vulnerable. He's someone that we can all identify…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Growing up, my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn't know anything about cameras. I…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

I think the best thing I have is the introvert's ability to listen when you're working on something as complicated as this…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

I don't believe in overcooking the actors too much. Especially when it's a real performance that I'm looking for.

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

We want to be proud of our work and make sure it's worth the talent of the animators, who spent four years…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

You're right, we both have been working on these films [Kung Fu Panda] forever and we know these characters so well that…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Sometimes, you just have to go in there and bowl people over with your sheer force of will.

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

When we were first creating the look of 'Kung Fu Panda,' we wanted to pay tribute to the beautiful tradition and culture…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Usually they have to deal with a dubbing situation or subtitles, and it takes you out of the experience. That's why we…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

You have to figure out how you can step forward and affect your own life. I think that sense of empowerment is…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

We had Chinese artists that would put in elements for the Chinese audience like the calligraphy actually means something so the audience…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

I don't think about the gender thing very much. But when I speak at schools, I've had female students say to me…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson