I think girls like vampires because they are mysterious and they really don't know what they are about. I think a lot of girls are attracted to that.

I play basketball probably four to five days a week when I'm back home.

I've learned a lot about how people have to fight through their whole lives just to be themselves.

For me, in the third book, when Peeta gets brainwashed by the Capitol, that's going to be fun to play. The rest of the time he's very much into Katniss, and for that to get turned around and to play it the other way, that's going to be very exciting.

I started acting when I was about nine. I always wanted to get into acting since I was really little but my parents would never let me because they'd heard all the bad stuff about being in the business as a young actor and stuff like that.

I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another.

When you have love in a story, it gives you the freedom to really take the characters to very interesting places.