Quotes by Jennifer Yuh Nelson

About Jennifer Yuh Nelson:

Jennifer Yuh Nelson is a South Korean-born American director and storyboard artist. She is best known for her directorial debut Kung Fu Panda 2. Yuh is the first woman to solely direct an animated feature from a major Hollywood studio.
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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.

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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, we can't do that, and that's impossible, and that's a bad choice.' You go the practicality of it. And then yo...

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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 unearne...

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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 ...

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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.

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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 themselves in the performance!

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

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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 did you do?' I don't really know. I puttered alo...

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

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I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.

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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 themsel...

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Author Bio

  • NameJennifer Yuh Nelson
  • DescriptionAmerican film director
  • BornJune 13, 1972
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Director
  • AwardsAnnie Award