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

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.

The hiring of Phil Messina, the production designer, was a big decision. He's so gifted, and his ideas were always so smart and rooted in American history and architecture. Nothing feels like it's not us, or couldn't be us, and I think that's very important.

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.

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

I've always tried to really focus on The Hunger Games movie, knowing that, yes, these are amazing books and I would feel like a failure, if I didn't get all three of them made.

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