A year ago, I'd meet people who, when they found out who I was, they'd say, 'Oh, we love the songs! We sing them all the time,' now they're like, 'Yep, we're still listening to those songs.' I've gone from, 'Thank you,' to, 'Sorry!'. Jennifer Lee More Quotes by Jennifer Lee More Quotes From Jennifer Lee Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire. Jennifer Lee fearless soul fire 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. Jennifer Lee left-and-right left trying God gives His toughest battles to His strongest soldiers. Jennifer Lee battle soldier giving If I learned one thing, it is that self-doubt is one of the most destructive forces. It makes you defensive instead of open, reactive instead of active. Self-doubt is consuming and cruel. And my hope today is that we can all collectively agree to ban it. . . . Think to the moments of your life when you forgot to doubt yourself. When you were so inspired that you were just living and creating and working. Pay attention to those moments because they're trying to reach you through those lenses of doubt and trying to show you your potential. Jennifer Lee self graduation thinking I'm always open to questions asked, and it will be up to me at that moment to decide if I want to answer or not. I've always been the kind of artist that wanted to focus so much more on the music than all these other things. For example, "what does it feel like to be a female in a male dominated industry"? Jennifer Lee female focus artist I'm still the person who naively thinks if I can imagine it, I can have it. Jennifer Lee imagine persons thinking When you are free from self-doubt, you fail better. You accept criticism and listen. Jennifer Lee criticism self doubt I think if you create well balanced characters that are well represented, boys and girls relate to them whether they're boys or girls. Jennifer Lee girl character boys Within the model minority rhetoric, Asian Americans are represented as “good” minorities and African Americans are represented as “bad” minorities. Here, the achievements of Asian Americans are used to discipline African Americans. As model minorities, Asian Americans achieved the status of “honorary Whites”. Again it is important to point out that the honorary whiteness of Asian Americans was granted at the expense of Blacks. It is also significant that as “honorary Whites,” Asian Americans do not have the actual privileges associated with “real” whiteness. Jennifer Lee achievement discipline real If you wanna do a film where you have a big scope, you've got to make your characters relatable and genuine. Jennifer Lee scope film character There's a lot of responsibility involved in sharing a very personal story with a lot of people, and it's easier for others not to know about things - and I know that. But in terms of the general climate, socially, these are things people have to deal with on a daily basis. We hear so many negative stories but rarely do we get positivity. We have memes of cute cats and puppies and things like that, but if they didn't exist, people would be a lot more unhappy. We need more things like that. Jennifer Lee cat responsibility cute People are funny. They often don't mean to be, and that's what makes it even more endearing. Jennifer Lee endearing mean people 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. Jennifer Lee loneliness choices people 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. Jennifer Lee pressure stories character Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime. Jennifer Lee downtime chinese cooking 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? Jennifer Lee stories trying philosophy If you don't want the nickname, don't live up to it. Jennifer Lee nicknames reputation want The main joy I have in owning or being a part of my own label is the platform I've created to really push other artists and this other kind of musical muscle I get to exercise, it's not just me as a creator of music but me as a curator. That's been really exciting and I do get to have the autonomy and control and all those things with my releases, but now I get to go and find artists that I really love and like and share them with the world too. Jennifer Lee artist exercise joy I'm aware of what I am, but I focus so much on myself as a musician and as an artist that I don't even notice that I'm the only female on a festival bill. I'm just like "oh I'm playing this festival."I haven't been very deeply involved in this greater outreach because my approach to equality is integration. I'm not into separatism, or an all-female festival. It's good and empowering but it doesn't allow for the bigger picture to get accomplished. We all need to be at the same festival - that's always been my approach. Jennifer Lee empowering focus artist Let your heart beat for music. Don't be a DJ for the wrong reasons, do it because you have a passion for it. Jennifer Lee passion reason heart
