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

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Jennifer Yuh Nelson, born on May 7, 1972, is a talented film director known for her unique perspective and creativity in the film industry. She is particularly renowned for her contributions to the animation film genre. more

“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.”

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Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson

“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.”

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Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson

“If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.”

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Author:Thomas Friedman

“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.”

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Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson

“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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Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson

“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.”

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Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson

“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!”

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Author: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 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.”

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Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson

“I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists.”

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