Jennifer Lee Quotes

Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.

Let your heart beat for music. Don't be a DJ for the wrong reasons, do it because you have a passion for it.

God gives His toughest battles to His strongest soldiers.

Don't lose faith in what you are trying to do, even though you will get pummeled emotionally left and right. There are a lot of "nos" to any "yes." And that's OK.

I'm still the person who naively thinks if I can imagine it, I can have it.

When you are free from self-doubt, you fail better. You accept criticism and listen.

I think if you create well balanced characters that are well represented, boys and girls relate to them whether they're boys or girls.

Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.

If you wanna do a film where you have a big scope, you've got to make your characters relatable and genuine.

The philosophy I always have is what's the sentence that would tell me about each shot. If I can't read why the shot's there, what is the story trying to say?

A secret is a kind of promise.... It can also be a prison.

Stupidity makes you dangerous-to yourself and everyone around you.

With a film, things constantly have to go up in the story, and you're constantly putting pressure on the main character. It allows to go really deep into what its relationship is.

If you don't want the nickname, don't live up to it.

Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're desperate for something, and that's okay. That's part of life.

People are funny. They often don't mean to be, and that's what makes it even more endearing.

Headline writing is an art form.

Chinese restaurants have long been a weekly or monthly ritual for many Americans.

My siblings and I are known as ABCs, American-born Chinese.

I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.

We might be shifting away from a Eurocentric view of the United States into something that's much more multicultural, multinational, and Chinese food is just one slice of that.

Laughter in the face of danger is a mark of courage.

Omniscience ... is an excellent quality in God, but suspect in everyone else.

That the good that we do might live on after us, while the evil lies interred with their bones.