Quotes by Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

As I said, i’m very quiet, i don’t go around saying “I’m awesome!” but when I brought in my portfolio into DreamWorks and showed them what I could do, my art style is a lot wilder than I am.

Art

Portfolios

Style

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 to make a film and I obviously didn’t have a special effects budget. I was a kid. So I was learning to draw to get down the stuff that was in my head, that I couldn’t afford to actually do.

Frustration

Growing Up

Kids

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 me, they can picture themselves directing, so maybe we’ll see more female directors.

Directors

School

Thinking

I think more than being a woman is the fact that i’m an introvert. In the environment I work in people forget that i’m a woman which is wonderful it just shows what a wonderful environment i work in, no one treats me differently. They don’t think that because i’m a woman i’ll make decisions differently.

Decision

People

Thinking

I think we had to push forward to make sure it was different, do something that we had never done before and yet still have the consistency to stay in the same world. This was our chance to do all the things we didn’t get a chance to do before. We’ve been working on these movies [Kung Fu Panda] for twelve years and we have to keep things exciting for us in order for us to devote that many years of our lives to do this.

Order

Thinking

Years

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

Furniture

Persons

Tantrums

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 drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

Drawing

Mom

Real

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 funny. But if you have something pretty emotional at its core, you have to make it right. You don’t want it overwrought or unearned. Everything has to be moving towards this one thing.

Emotional

Moving

Want

One of my favorite things about the Kung Fu Panda 3 is the look of it. We never go for realism. I think a lot of time when people go for 3D that’s the mistake. Because we’re never going for full realism – for computer generated live action films like Avatar the goal is realism, to make the audience feel like they are seeing something that is real. Lord of the Rings had character design and environments to make it look real, whereas we aren’t going for that, we are going for something that is theatrically, viscerally, and emotionally real.

Character

Mistake

Real

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 he has those insecurities. He’s an outsider feeling guy.

Feelings

Guy

Insecurity

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Kids

Kung Fu Panda

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Mom

Moving

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Quotes by Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

As I said, i’m very quiet, i don’t go around saying “I’m awesome!” but when I brought in my portfolio into DreamWorks and showed them what I could do, my art style is a lot wilder than I am.

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

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 drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

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 he has those insecurities. He’s an outsider feeling guy.

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