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

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

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

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.

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

I can't imagine Hunger Games, even with its very popular books, being nearly a success that it's been without Jen Lawrence being the perfect person to play that role - a very modern celebrity, a very down-to-earth, accessible, celebrity.

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.