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

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.

We could do it, you know.""What?""Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.

So this, Harriet thought, gazing at her black-clad reflection, was what bearing up looked like. The eyes in the mirror stared at her, somehow, while fixing themselves far

So I didn't have time to craft artful lies and evasions even if I'd wanted to.

Putting yourself first means you will never be last!

What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.

what I love is slowness. Slow people, slow reading, slow traveling, slow eggs, and slow love. Everything good comes slow.

Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness, without a change, without an end?

Have an attitude of gratitude.

He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

With Tiger Woods, you know everyone is watching. But I think interest in women's golf is getting better too.