Jennifer Yuh Nelson famous quotes

03-28-2025

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

#Inspirational #People #Sometimes
When people feel safe, they can come up with ideas. It's important to listen to the actor who is there on the stage and living it.
-- Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#Ideas #People #Important
You have to make sure that people are still motivated and happy and creatively challenged so that it can all be stitched together. The voice acting starts after a lot of the storyboards are done.
-- Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#Voice #People #Acting
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

#Children #Personality #Tigress
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!
-- Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#Artist #Talking #Actors
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.
-- Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#Moving #Emotional #Want
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.
-- Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#Mom #Real #Drawing
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.
-- Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#School #Thinking #Directors
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.
-- Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#Growing Up #Kids #Frustration
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 you come up to 'Great.' But that middle part is when you don't have results yet.
-- Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#Ideas #Choices #Shapes
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.
-- Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#People
I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.
-- Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#Transition #Tough #Aggressive
I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.
-- Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#Tantrums #Furniture #Persons
A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.
-- Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#Stories #Animation
It's like being the general of an army [directing a film]. You send people out to die.
-- Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#Army #People #Film
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 along, did my thing and gender has really never been an issue.
-- Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#School #Kids #Artist

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