There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into the fold.

You're not doing the scene exactly the way it is in the book [The Hunger Games], but the intention of the scene is there.

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

If the movie [The Hunger Games] were stylized violence that was pretty and fun and cool, which is great when you go see 300 or The Matrix, it would just be out of sync with the fact that they're kids.

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

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.

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