I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer. I think the most important thing is that you have to really choose the players carefully.

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.

Grandfather always said school's a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

Colors are things we experience.

I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.

And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

I wasn't a club kid. I wasn't an artist. I was just a foreigner, trying to soak it all up. I had quite a lot of fun.

In a world of smoke and ashes, you are milk and honey

Yes there were 15 to 20 terrorists. We managed to capture both of them!

We all want to be renewed, don't we?

The only difference between a RICH person and a POOR person is how they use their time.