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Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Jennifer Yuh Nelson (born May 7, 1972), also known as Jennifer Yuh, is an American director and storyboard artist. She is best known for her two directorial debuts in Kung Fu Panda 2 and its sequel Kung Fu Panda 3. Yuh is the first woman to solely direct an animated feature from a major Hollywood studio.

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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 unearned. Everything has to be moving towards this one thing.

Emotional, Make, Moving, Strive, Thing, Want

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!

Actors, Artist, Performance, Talking

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, Natural, Real

You have hundreds of artists you're dealing with across the world and the scale of this movie [Kung Fu Panda] was insane - we had a parallel pipeline going on where you had two versions recording Mandarin voice actors, getting it to be funny for Mandarin audiences going beyond a straight translation, and then animating it and lighting it, it's a lot of work.

Artist, Funny, Recording, Two, Voice, World

You're right, we both have been working on these films [Kung Fu Panda] forever and we know these characters so well that literally we will react to the same note in the same way. We will have the same answer most of the time.

Character, Forever, Know, Kung Fu Panda, Right, Time

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

Stories, Animation, Story, Right, Spent

We have those new environments [during Kung Fu Panda 3] that give a scale to the movie, that are the spirit realm and the panda village. The spirit realm, having no gravity, having this massive space, allowed us to do huge action shots. All that we just couldn't do before. We just couldn't get the scale, we'd have to cheat them. This time we found ourselves more free.

Cheat, Giving, Kung, Kung Fu Panda, Movie, Space

The hidden village was something we found when we went to research in China we climbed a mountain in the Sichuan province where the panda sanctuary is based, and we climbed to this beautiful, mist-covered, almost primordial place and when we turned these corners these moss covered old buildings would come into view, revealing themselves and it was so beautiful and so unlike anything we'd seen that we literally took those moments and put them into the film [Kung Fu Panda 3].

Beautiful, Old Buildings, Views, Sanctuary, Turned, Film

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.

Devote, Done, Keep, Order, Thinking, Years

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

Furniture, Persons, Tantrums, Throw

It's like being the general of an army [directing a film]. You send people out to die.

Army, Die, Film, General, Like, People

We had Chinese artists that would put in elements for the Chinese audience like the calligraphy actually means something so the audience when they read it they'll understand. So there were definitely little things we were able to do that specifically leveraged the artists' talents.

Actually, Artist, Artists, Chinese, Mean, Specifically

8 year old young girl came up to me when I went to speak at an elementary school, and she gave me a drawing. It was great and she said "I want to be just like you when I grow up and direct movies". And that just made me choke up. It was so cute, and the reason why she's looking at me is I look like her.

Cute, Girl, Growing Up, Looking, Old, Year

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.

Ideas, People, Important, Come, Living

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, Kid, Kids, Make, Stuff

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.

Love, Sweat, Tears, Years

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, Decisions, People, Thinking, Woman, Wonderful

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

Aggressive, Nature, Tough, Transition

Po's [Kung Fu Panda] unending enthusiasm is something we wish we could have. We can't help but root for him because of his geek energy.

Kung Fu Panda, Panda, Roots, Unending, Wish

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

Bowl, Force, Force Of Will, Inspirational, People, Sheer

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