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" When you make a movie, it's just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else. "

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

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

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

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

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