I felt that there were so many things that could go wrong, in adapting The Hunger Games , and I had this fierce desire to protect this book that she had written. At that time, I read the second book, in manuscript form, and so I saw where she was going with the series. I was able to convince Suzanne [Collins] to trust me with the books.

I was an executive before I was a producer, and I've seen franchise fever grow, over the course of my career. The one thing that people always forget is that it's only a franchise if audiences really want to see more of it. It's up to them. It's really not up to us.

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

I'm very superstitious. I come from a family that's big on not painting the nursery until the baby is home.

As a producer, you can't break up w/your own project. It's like sleeping with someone that you don't like... Forever.

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

Deb Zane, our casting director on the Hunger Games was very sanguine, from the beginning, about just blocking out what everybody else says that they want.