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.

I never had to put myself in somebody else's shoes.

It was very important to me to choose a director like Gary [Ross], whose instincts come from character, who's a storyteller, and who puts characters first.

Ultimately, only audiences decide what's a franchise.

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

[On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: "People should have ignored the five racist idiots.

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.