Francis Lawrence Quotes

I am not a big 'Hunger Games' fan.

I read the three 'Hunger Games' books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote 'Just a Game.'

You never get fans hanging out on movie sets. It just never happens.

I was an early adopter of the 'Hunger Games.' I read them before they were best sellers - I was on the pre-order wait list for 'Mockingjay' on Amazon.

I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter.

I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.

I was focused on The Hunger Games movie with my director, with the studio, and with the cast and crew. We all just focused on making the best possible movie we could, and earning the right to do more.

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.

I've been on sets my whole life.

We shot 'Skateland' in the end of 2008, in Shreveport, Louisiana just between the border of East Texas and Louisiana - and we shot 'Battle: Los Angeles' at the end of 2009, also in Shreveport. So I know a lot about Shreveport.

I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close.

I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know.

A lot of a movie is locations, frankly.

A film set is really delicate and people treat you very very well if you're an actor because they want you to be as comfortable as possible for you to do your work, but it really is just one in a team of many and usually 150 people.

I would love to be in 'The Hunger Games.' I'm one of the few people who haven't read the books, because unfortunately, I'm not a big book reader. I do read a lot of scripts and I read the script and I loved it. So, yeah, I'd love to be in 'The Hunger Games.'

You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'

I love movie sets. It's another home for me. Movie theaters and movie sets - they're just the best places to be. I love them.

I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.

The fans of 'The Hunger Games,' of the book, are very passionate. It's funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding up 'Cinna' signs.

'Dark Knight' shot in London and Chicago, and we were on that for so long.

I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set to that set and I loved it. There's something about it which is really interesting.

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.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.