87 Quotes by Jennifer Yuh Nelson

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

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

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.

Tigress is my alternate personality, especially with children. I love animation because you get to do things you don’t normally get to.

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

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

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!

We want to be proud of our work and make sure it’s worth the talent of the animators, who spent four years of their love, sweat and tears on it.

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.