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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• Jennifer Yuh Nelson:

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

• Jennifer Yuh Nelson:

  I don't think about the gender thing very much. But when I speak at schools, I've had female studen

• Jennifer Yuh Nelson:

  When you make a movie, it's just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it beco

• Jennifer Yuh Nelson:

  Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for the

• Jennifer Yuh Nelson:

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

• Jennifer Yuh Nelson:

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

• Jennifer Yuh Nelson:

  If you have a movie that doesn't strive to go to a certain emotional point, you can do anything and

• Jennifer Yuh Nelson:

  Growing up, my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn't know an

• Jennifer Yuh Nelson:

  There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in sch

• Jennifer Yuh Nelson:

  I only think in live action.