Nobody roots for people who presume success. You have to earn success, and success is earned by making a movie that audiences like and want to see more of.

Being able to just stick to our instincts and honor the [Hunger Games] books and find a way to stay the course of trying to make the best possible decisions that you would make creatively on any movie, without having your head turned too much by all of the interest, has been a great challenge. It's the best challenge you could ask for, but that was a big challenge.

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.

I think that one of the greatest perspectives that I have, from being a buyer for my whole career until I became a producer, is that I have a pretty good understanding of the buyers mentality.

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.

The most powerful decision-making part of the audience is women. Boys have a lot of impact on the industry, but it's often women who impact what stories get made.