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.

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

It’s not how far you’ve come that matters. It’s where you’ve come from.

Books will give you new ideas to fly and books can be find in the libraries

For to-day I take or give

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

No one expected the preacher's daughter to sin, but they sure would love to catch me at it.

I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.

Personal development - the never ending chance to improve not only yourself, but also to attract opportunities and affect others.

Making and cheerfully keeping our covenants gives validity and life to the vital sacred and saving ordinances we need to receive in order to obtain all that the Father hath.

I grew up very introverted and I'm still a very introverted person, so to me it's about constantly just pushing and pushing out of your comfort zone because that where you're going to grow the most.

Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.