“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.” IfsWantMovingCertainCan DoOne ThingEmotionalFineStriveCore Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“We always try to make the very best movie when we're working on and we can only think one at a time. We want to make this a perfect jewel, and then we'll see what happens after that.” ThinkingWantTryingHappensPerfectJewels Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“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.” WantYearsFourTalentTearsProudSweatFour YearsBe ProudAnimatorSweat And Tears Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“I think the one thing specifically that is most consistent, is that we want to harken back to martial arts movies because that's kind of the genre we're paying tribute to, so there are some similarities to a lot of films, because they all feed off each other!” ThinkingWantKindArtFilmOne ThingGenreConsistentMartial ArtsTributeSimilarity Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“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.” WantYearsLooksMadeSaidReasonSchoolYoungGirlSpeakGrowsGrowing UpLike YouDirectDrawingReason WhyCuteChokeLike HerElementary School Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
