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

Nobody roots for people who presume success. You have to earn success, and success is earned by making a movie that audiences like and want to see more of.

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.

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

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.

Ultimately, only audiences decide what's a franchise.

Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer.

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

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

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 camera as directors.

Thirty spokesShare one hub.Make the nothing therein appropriate, and you will have the use of the cart.

They're not poodles, they're art.

Secretly we fear ourselves, not the fear itself.

His hair stood upright like porcupine quills.

We should let our godliness exhale like th odor of flowers. We should live for the good of our kind, and strive for the salvation of the world.

Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.

They were making a deal for a property that clearly was a property that we wanted to own, so we had to act, and act as quickly as we could, and make the offer more attractive.

My only real solace? Sleep. In the absence of an explanation of anything, for everything, I live for it and what it can bring.

The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years.

A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'