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..

As quiet as I am I find it amazing I can stand in front of hundreds of people now and make a speech because i've had to do it so much. I've so much s….

If you only do what you can do, you'll never be more than you are now.I never thought i'd be where I am now, but the fact that I am is pretty cool..

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

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….

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 ….

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….

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

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….

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

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..

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

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 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 ….

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 ….

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….

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

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..

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….

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 ….