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..

Lots of people support me and I forget. But sometimes things happen and I remember, and they say I encourage them, it makes me feel very happy..

Aside from that i’m an introvert and i’m a quiet person. The benefit of that is I listen. It’s not like my mouth is open and I broadcast everything ….

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

We did two films [Kung Fu Panda], because the first two films were so embraced by the Chinese audiences we wanted to make something we could push fur….

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….

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 ….

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 i….

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 mysel….

As I said, i'm very quiet, i don't go around saying "I'm awesome!" but when I brought in my portfolio into DreamWorks and showed them what I could do….

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 ….

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….

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 ….

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 ….

I think the best thing I have is the introvert's ability to listen when you're working on something as complicated as this and you have to really be ….

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….

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 ….

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 someth….

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

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

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