Nina Jacobson Quotes

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.

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.

It's an exciting time, when you can make your movie on a cellphone. If it's good, it WILL get noticed.

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 want.

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

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

Little decisions were made, every day. In this movie [The Hunger Games], we really focused on Cinna and we didn't get time to focus on the other stylist.

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.

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 his draft.

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 movies.

I've always tried to really focus on The Hunger Games movie, knowing that, yes, these are amazing books and I would feel like a failure, if I didn't get all three of them made.

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 nuts and bolts work on the set.

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

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

It was very important to me to choose a director like Gary [Ross], whose instincts come from character, who's a storyteller, and who puts characters first.

I felt that with each movie, Gary [Ross] adopts a different style. He doesn't have one look that's the Gary Ross look, and I thought that was important.

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

There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into the fold.

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

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.

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

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

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

Ultimately, only audiences decide what's a franchise.

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.

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