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" Kids have so much screen time, and it's a concern. I know how overloaded I can feel sometimes. "
Suzanne Collins
Know
Time
Sometimes
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" If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence. "
Suzanne Collins
Words
Time
Parent
" I try to catch flies in cups and put them outside. After I wrote 'The Underland Chronicles'... well, once you start naming cockroaches, you lose your edge. "
Suzanne Collins
Outside
Edge
Lose
" One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read. "
Suzanne Collins
Me
Memorable
Someone
" I'm thrilled with the work Tim Palen and his marketing team have done on the film. It's appropriately disturbing and thought-provoking how the campaign promotes 'Catching Fire' while simultaneously promoting the Capitol's punitive forms of entertainment. "
Suzanne Collins
Fire
Film
Done
" I've just had the opportunity to see the finished film of 'The Hunger Games.' I'm really happy with how it turned out. I feel like the book and the film are individual yet complementary pieces that enhance one another. "
Suzanne Collins
Book
Opportunity
Hunger
" The film opens up the world beyond Katniss' point of view, allowing the audience access to the happenings of places like the Hunger Games control room and President Snow's rose garden, thereby adding a new dimension to the story. "
Suzanne Collins
View
Control
Rose
" I sort of half read Thomas Hardy's 'The Mayor of Casterbridge.' It was assigned in 10th grade, and I just couldn't get into it. About seven years later, I rediscovered Hardy and consumed four of his novels in a row. "
Suzanne Collins
Mayor
Four
Half
" I'm not comfortable around cameras. "
Suzanne Collins
Comfortable
Cameras
Around
" In 'The Hunger Games,' in most people's idea, in terms of rebellion or a civil-war situation, that would meet the criteria for a necessary war. These people are oppressed, their children are being taken off and put in gladiator games. They're impoverished, they're starving, they're brutalized. "
Suzanne Collins
War
Meet
Situation
" I have a pretty big TV background, and I have clocked so many hours in so many writers' rooms over the years. "
Suzanne Collins
Pretty
Years
Big
" I wrote 'The Hunger Games' in a chair, like a La-Z-Boy chair, next to my bed. I had an office, but my kids sort of took it over. "
Suzanne Collins
Over
Bed
Chair
" Katniss Everdeen owes her last name to Bathsheba Everdene, the lead character in 'Far From the Madding Crowd.' The two are very different, but both struggle with knowing their hearts. "
Suzanne Collins
Name
Struggle
Two
" When I got out of undergrad, I had a degree in theater and telecommunications. My first job, I was a news reporter for the local stories for NPR. Then I was a country-western DJ. I did data entry for a yearbook company. In my mid-20s I went back to grad school at NYU, and I specialized in playwriting. "
Suzanne Collins
Job
News
School
" It's embarrassing to admit how many times I've reread the following: 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,' '1984,' 'Lord of the Flies,' 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,' 'Germinal,' 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle,' and 'A Moveable Feast.' "
Suzanne Collins
Brooklyn
Tree
Lonely
" It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly realized through the artistry of the designers. "
Suzanne Collins
Through
See
Things
" Whenever I write a story, I hope it appeals to both boys and girls. "
Suzanne Collins
Hope
Both
Boys And Girls
" I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents. "
Suzanne Collins
War
Adolescence
About
" I think it's very uncomfortable for people to talk to children about war, and so they don't because it's easier not to. But then you have young people at eighteen who are enlisting in the army, and they really don't have the slightest idea what they're getting into. "
Suzanne Collins
Children
Think
You
" All the writing elements are the same. You need to tell a good story... You've got good characters... People think there's some dramatic difference between writing 'Little Bear' and the 'Hunger Games,' and as a writer, for me, there isn't. "
Suzanne Collins
Me
Writing
Think
" I loved 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.' I read it later as an adult, but I loved 'We Have Always Lived in a Castle.' And that brings you around to 'The Lottery.' You can't pretend - it's a lottery in which you draw a name and people die. That's a short story, but it's such an incredible short story. "
Suzanne Collins
Name
People
Short
" My father was career military. He was a veteran, he was a doctor of political science, he taught at West Point and Air Command Staff and lectured at the War College. "
Suzanne Collins
Science
War
Political
" If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek myth of Theseus, which I read when I was about 8 years old. In punishment for past deeds, Athens periodically had to send seven youths and seven maidens to a labyrinth. In the maze was this Minotaur, and it would eat them. "
Suzanne Collins
Story
Hunger
Punishment
" 'The Underland Chronicles' is an unnecessary war for a very long time until it becomes a necessary war, because there have been all these points where people could have gotten off the train but they didn't; they just kept moving the violence forward until it's gone out of control. "
Suzanne Collins
Moving
People
Time
" I'm not a very fancy person. I've been a writer a long time, and right now 'The Hunger Games' is getting a lot of focus. It'll pass. The focus will be on something else. It'll shift. It always does. And that seems just fine. "
Suzanne Collins
Long
Time
Long Time
" I started as a playwright. Any sort of scriptwriting you do helps you hone your story. You have the same demands of creating a plot, developing relatable characters and keeping your audience invested in your story. My books are basically structured like three-act plays. "
Suzanne Collins
Audience
Creating
Like
" I think people respond to dystopian stories because they're ways of acting out anxieties that we have and fears that we have about the future. So much media's coming at you over the Internet, your brain gets overloaded. You don't know what to do with it. And one thing you can do with it is read a story. "
Suzanne Collins
You
Think
People
" There's a basis for the war, historically, in the 'Hunger Games,' which would be the third servile war, which was Spartacus' war, where you have a man who is a slave who is then turned into a gladiator who broke out of the gladiator school and led a rebellion and then became the face of the war. "
Suzanne Collins
War
Rebellion
School
" Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times. "
Suzanne Collins
Explore
Story
You
" Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he's also brought a rich and powerful vision of Panem, its brutality and excesses, to the film as well. His world building's fantastic, whether it be the Seam or the Capitol. "
Suzanne Collins
Rich
Vision
World
" Both the 'Gregor' series and 'The Hunger Games' are what I call lightning-bolt ideas. There was a moment where the idea came to me. With 'The Hunger Games,' the lightning bolt sort of hit at a moment when I was channel surfing between reality TV and the coverage of the Iraq war. "
Suzanne Collins
Ideas
Hunger
Reality