Suzanne Collins Quotes

I just want people to focus on the performance.

Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.

I was not a political animal; I could not toady up to the committee men, pour drinks down their necks at the bar, and make them feel important. I was too focused on the cricket.

I have a job to do. ... If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics, then you don't know me.

I have a terrible attention span, so if something can keep my attention, I know that that's at least a great start.

When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.

It's hard to get people to focus on one idea.

Cruising the Internet doesn't count as writing. Neither does answering e-mail. Before you check Twitter & FB and do other similar tasks that get in the way of writing, write first. (I really need to take my own advice here!)

I think our main priority is to make people happy and try to take them out of all that for a second.

You have Obama that wants to play golf instead of deal with people.

I've heard people say that [I have a short attention span]. I don't feel I do, because when I'm interested in something I'll stay in focus as long as it is necessary... If you get off on something I'm not very interested in, it's very easy for me to block it out. It's easy for me to block things out.

People have an infinite attention span if you are entertaining them.

When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.

Before each new setup, I chase everyone off the set in order to be alone and look through the camera. In that moment, the film seems quite easy. But then the others come in and everything becomes difficult.

Comedies are doing well because I think people want to laugh and not think about everything for a little bit.

What are you reading for?

If nobody ever worried about what was in other people's heads, we’d all be 33 percent more effective in our lives and our jobs.

Life is not entertainment. Life is not distraction.

When you are doing one thing - talking on your phone, texting, whatever - you are automatically not doing something else. What is the greatest scarcity in the world today? It's not oil. It's time. Time is precious. Don't throw it away.

When you work in front of the people, either in a film or in television, the people who are in the room with you are not watching you work, they're working so you'd have to light a fire to get them to watch what you were doing.

If you have never had any distractions you don't know how to pray.

Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.

What people will do to get away from boredom!

We forget to remain focused on the things that really matter.