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 hi….

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 ….

It can really vary from movie to movie what the producer's role is and there are all kinds of producers. There are line producers who do a lot of the….

There is a young fella who works for me, named Brian Unkeless, who's very smart. We're a very small company that has been Brian and me and two assist….

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 movie….

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..

Deb Zane, our casting director on the Hunger Games was very sanguine, from the beginning, about just blocking out what everybody else says that they ….

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

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

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

When you read a book [The Hunger Games], you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exis….

I'm very superstitious. I come from a family that's big on not painting the nursery until the baby is home..

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 j….

Ultimately, only audiences decide what's a franchise..

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. ….

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 de….

Women are making strides in many areas and women have mentored and supported me along the way. I think that women are underrepresented behind the cam….

I'm an ardent fan. All I really had to do was put myself in my own shoes..

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

When fans get very passionate about a movie, they just want you to do it well. They don't want you to screw it up. Their idea of doing it well might ….

I was an executive before I was a producer, and I've seen franchise fever grow, over the course of my career. The one thing that people always forget….