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" All the 'Hunger Games' stuff, we had a fantastic production designer, and he built amazing sets. "
Amazing
Production
Games
" I always want to try to make films feel timeless, because one of my biggest pet peeves is that there's a movie you love, and then you revisit it twenty years later, you show your kid or something, and it's like, 'Oh my God!' with hairstyles and clothing and all that kind of stuff. "
God
Feel
You
" 'I Am Legend' was a rich, emotional experience where you could be scared and cry, and there's some wish fulfilment. "
Legend
I Am
Rich
" I believe that the process could be fun, I just think that making movies is really tough. And it's stressful as it is, and I think that most of us got in this business because it's fun to make movies. "
Believe
Business
Fun
" I love animals. Even if you go back to my music video days, I can't tell you how many animals I used. "
Back
Music
You
" I love reluctant heroes, all of that. "
I Love
Reluctant
Heroes
" I'm attracted to the journeys of isolated characters. "
Characters
Isolated
Attracted
" I never... it's a hard thing: when I think about projects, I don't come off something and go, 'I really want to make a sci-fi film next,' or 'I really want to do a political thriller next.' It's really coming across - I'm really fascinated, partly by world building, but also about the character and what the journey is. "
Journey
World
Character
" I remember 'Battlestar Galactica' shot at the college that my dad taught at. I remember trying on a Cylon helmet. I think I was 6 or 7 years old. "
Trying
Think
College
" I still wear Vans. "
Wear
Still
" I think that the thing that is really strong with 'The Hunger Games' is just that it comes from a very strong idea. "
Strong
Idea
Games
" I think the movie business and film crews are a little bit like the circus, in that we travel around like a pack and we're a big family for a finite period of time. We roll into someplace, cause a bunch of damage, and then roll out. "
Think
Family
Business
" It's kind of the filmmaker's job to use visual, cinematic language in a way possible to tell a story that reaches and touches as many people as possible. "
Language
People
Story
" I've been a fan of noir films since I was in high school. "
High School
Been
Fan
" I've never seen a 'Transporter' movie. "
Never
Seen
Movie
" I've now made enough movies that I understand that people love to put things in a box. "
People
Enough
Understand
" I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical as they used to be. There was something about the old tent shows, the Big Top, the canvas, the lights, the sawdust, the hay and the animals that's just missing now. Now, it's all urbanized and maybe a little garish. "
Animals
Lights
Top
" Often, adults don't give kids enough credit. "
Give
Credit
Enough
" One of the big themes - if not the big theme - of 'Mockingjay - Part 1' is the battle of the airwaves. I don't think teenagers really understand the role propaganda has in our lives in terms of politics, advertising, and the general manipulation of imagery. "
Think
Politics
Battle
" There are two separate scripts for 'Mockingjay' parts one and two. It's definitely one story, but there are two totally distinct and separate scripts. "
Two
Distinct
Scripts
" We actually started shooting the 'Mockingjay' movies before 'Catching Fire' was released. "
Fire
Started
Shooting
" Whenever you're adapting something that's a 12- or 14-hour read down to something that has to be around two hours, there's going to be some cuts. "
Hours
Down
Going
" When I signed on and went and did 'Catching Fire,' the majority of it was done in Atlanta for rebate reasons. Luckily, that worked because there's forest. There's old rail stations and factories and lots of stuff we can use and sound stages. For the tropical stuff, we went to Hawaii. "
Done
Sound
Fire
" When you're making a movie, you have those days that you really look forward to, and it's a little bit like Murphy's law. The days you look forward to become your hell days. The days you're dreading become these amazing days. "
Forward
Hell
Law
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