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.

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

We knew that we wanted TheHunger Games to be PG-13 because she wrote the book for readers 12 and up, and we wanted them to be able to see the movie. It's a movie that is meant to be relevant to young people, and not exclude them, in any way.

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

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.

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