Kung Fu Panda Quotes

• Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.

  Michelle Yeoh

  Inspirational, Life, Choices

  "Fictional character: Soothsayer". "Kung Fu Panda 2", www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Inspirational, Clever, Cheer Up

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• A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Fate, Journey, Destiny

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book VIII". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1678 - 1679.

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• Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present.

  Deepak Chopra

  Clever, Cheer Up, Pandas

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• The only thing that matters is what you do now, here.

  Arthur M. Jolly

  Matter, Kung Fu Movie, Robert Langdon

  Arthur M. Jolly (2010). “A Gulag Mouse”, p.13, Next Stage Press

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• The mind is like dishwater, my friend.  When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see.  But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear.

  Randall Duk Kim

  Mind, Answers, Settling

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• One of the things we love about Po [Kung Fu Panda] is that he's vulnerable. He's someone that we can all identify with because he has those insecurities. He's an outsider feeling guy.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Guy, Feelings, Insecurity

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• We got the best actors imaginable [in Kung Fu Panda]. If we could have made a wish list I don't think there would anyone else we would have added. Yeah, we've been blessed with exactly how amazing a cast of actors we have. To have someone like Bryan Cranston, who is not just an amazing actor, but who has such a range.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Blessed, Thinking, Wish

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• We actually tried to put in [Kung Fu Panda 3] all the things we wanted to put into the first two films. We're all the same people who've been working on the other films and we all had things we couldn't do, and had to leave on the table. We just couldn't achieve them before. This time we have multiple new environments and different styles of animation.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Two, People, Style

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• One of my favorite things about the Kung Fu Panda 3 is the look of it. We never go for realism. I think a lot of time when people go for 3D that's the mistake. Because we're never going for full realism - for computer generated live action films like Avatar the goal is realism, to make the audience feel like they are seeing something that is real. Lord of the Rings had character design and environments to make it look real, whereas we aren't going for that, we are going for something that is theatrically, viscerally, and emotionally real.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Real, Mistake, Character

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Oriental DreamWorks did a lot of the surfacing of the village [in Kung Fu Panda 3] and you know all the little paintings on all the gables and everything? They have meaning, and they could do that because they know what that means, we don't necessarily know about that over here.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Mean, Pandas, Village

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• You have hundreds of artists you're dealing with across the world and the scale of this movie [Kung Fu Panda] was insane - we had a parallel pipeline going on where you had two versions recording Mandarin voice actors, getting it to be funny for Mandarin audiences going beyond a straight translation, and then animating it and lighting it, it's a lot of work.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Artist, Two, Voice

  "The Women of “Kung Fu Panda 3”: Girlpower in the World of Animation" by Leslie Combemale, www.indiewire.com. February 1, 2016.

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• 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 further and since this is a co-production, it seemed like the perfect time to create something that felt native to Chinese audiences.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Two, Perfect, Chinese

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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 is based, and we climbed to this beautiful, mist-covered, almost primordial place and when we turned these corners these moss covered old buildings would come into view, revealing themselves and it was so beautiful and so unlike anything we'd seen that we literally took those moments and put them into the film [Kung Fu Panda 3].

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Beautiful, Views, Old Buildings

  "The Women of “Kung Fu Panda 3”: Girlpower in the World of Animation" by Leslie Combemale, www.indiewire.com. February 1, 2016.

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• We have those new environments [during Kung Fu Panda 3] that give a scale to the movie, that are the spirit realm and the panda village. The spirit realm, having no gravity, having this massive space, allowed us to do huge action shots. All that we just couldn't do before. We just couldn't get the scale, we'd have to cheat them. This time we found ourselves more free.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Space, Giving, Pandas

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When you see all of the pandas in this movie [Kung Fu Panda 3], they are rolling because that is exactly what they do. Not only were we able to watch the pandas play but we had free range to walk around and get a feel for the architecture and get a sense of where they lived ,so there's a lot of firsthand exploration.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Play, Rolling, Watches

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• I think we had to push forward to make sure it was different, do something that we had never done before and yet still have the consistency to stay in the same world. This was our chance to do all the things we didn't get a chance to do before. We've been working on these movies [Kung Fu Panda] for twelve years and we have to keep things exciting for us in order for us to devote that many years of our lives to do this.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Thinking, Order, Years

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• Po's [Kung Fu Panda] unending enthusiasm is something we wish we could have. We can't help but root for him because of his geek energy.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Roots, Wish, Energy

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• I think it's because Po [from Kung Fu Panda] is such a geek, and he is so relatable. He is so excited by life and is excited to learn new things. I think that accessibility is something that we all can relate to, there are so many things we wish we could do but don't have the means to achieve it.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Mean, Thinking, Wish

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• There are a lot of movies that take place internationally, like Kung Fu Panda portraying a little bit of China, and Ratatouille portraying a little about Paris, but it's hard to find a movie that portrays Rio or Brazil.

  Carlos Saldanha

  Paris, Pandas, Brazil

  Source: collider.com

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• You're right, we both have been working on these films [Kung Fu Panda] forever and we know these characters so well that literally we will react to the same note in the same way. We will have the same answer most of the time.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Character, Forever, Pandas

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