Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer.

You are there to support the vision of the people who you choose to excute the movie.

Suzanne [Collins] was very involved in the development of the script. She wrote the first draft. She was very involved with Billy Ray, when he wrote his draft.

[On The Hunger Games success]: "It hit on the zeitgeist of the disparity b/w the haves and have nots.

Only audiences decide what's a franchise. Only audiences decide what's a hit. I have always been mindful of not wanting to be the Miami Heat of movies.

It's an exciting time, when you can make your movie on a cellphone. If it's good, it WILL get noticed.

The "If you build it, they will come" approach to filmmaking has always been helpful to me.