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.

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.

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

I can see the caravanserai, like a mirage in the distance. The heat hums. I thought I saw water. What would you have on these trade winds for your comfort?

The big problem is not whether the Bible is true. The big problem is whether it is true in you.

The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit

My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?

The thing about me not doing superhero movies, that's not true at all. Movies are movies. You just go.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.

I personally love sportswear, and love using it in high fashion.