I was focused on The Hunger Games movie with my director, with the studio, and with the cast and crew. We all just focused on making the best possible movie we could, and earning the right to do more.

Only audiences decide what's a franchise. Only audiences decide what's a hit. I have always been mindful of not wanting to be the Miami Heat of movies.

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.

The most important part of filmmaking is the collaboration and the ensemble element of it. If you just all focus on the task and the work and try and make the best film that you can then people will come.

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

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