Quotes by Nina Jacobson

Nina Jacobson

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

Games

Hunger

Zeitgeist

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

Games

People

Should Have

Being able to just stick to our instincts and honor the [Hunger Games] books and find a way to stay the course of trying to make the best possible decisions that you would make creatively on any movie, without having your head turned too much by all of the interest, has been a great challenge. It’s the best challenge you could ask for, but that was a big challenge.

Book

Decision

Games

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

Important

Player

Thinking

I can’t imagine Hunger Games, even with its very popular books, being nearly a success that it’s been without Jen Lawrence being the perfect person to play that role – a very modern celebrity, a very down-to-earth, accessible, celebrity.

Book

Games

Play

I felt that there were so many things that could go wrong, in adapting The Hunger Games , and I had this fierce desire to protect this book that she had written. At that time, I read the second book, in manuscript form, and so I saw where she was going with the series. I was able to convince Suzanne [Collins] to trust me with the books.

Book

Desire

Games

I love the Hunger Games books. Certainly, the fans are there. They’re grown enormously since the beginning. When I first brought the books to Lionsgate, they had sold about 150,000 copies, which is a very good result for a YA book. And to their credit, Lionsgate was very excited and committed to the movie, from the beginning.

Book

Fans

Games

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

Shoes

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.

Careers

Perspective

Thinking

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

Fans

My Own

Shoes

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Baby

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Cameras

Careers

Character

Choices

Community

Decision

Desire

Development

Different

Directors

Fans

Filmmaker

Focus

Games

Home

Hunger

Ideas

Impact

Important

Knowing

My Own

Nurse

People

Perspective

Play

Player

Powerful

Producers

Rays

Roots

Scripts

Shoes

Should Have

Smart

Style

Thinking

Trying

Want

Way

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Quotes by Nina Jacobson

Nina Jacobson

[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.

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

I can’t imagine Hunger Games, even with its very popular books, being nearly a success that it’s been without Jen Lawrence being the perfect person to play that role – a very modern celebrity, a very down-to-earth, accessible, celebrity.

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

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

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