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

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.

[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.

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

The world is God's salvation.

There is only one way to be a respectful being and the way for this is very simple: Respect other beings!

... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other...

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair but after all the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

I think it's very hard to be sexually explicit and erotic - though there are writers, like K. M. Soehnlein, who are just brilliant at this.

Christ in us must take dominion over the earth.... The next move of God cannot occur until Christ in us takes dominion.

I want to be alone with my thought.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life.

I had always held everything in before.