'New Moon' was such a serious, depressing movie that people felt we had lost a little humor of the books.
You're not doing the scene exactly the way it is in the book [The Hunger Games], but the intention of the scene is there.
I have a lot of books optioned. This one sat around for a while - part of that was just because I was trying to figure it out, and I didn't realize I needed Pam to figure it out - but I'm not somebody that likes to option books and then sit on them.
I don't know if kids still read it, I just know that for me - as a boarding school kid - the book had a lot of resonance. It was a well written book. I was honored to play a part in that movie version.
Sometimes if a script is based on a book, that's what you should do: represent the book.
I don't see how it could possibly be made into a movie unless the entire book was scrapped and Shirley Temple cast as 'Bonnie,' Mae West as 'Belle,' and Stepin Fetchit as 'Uncle Peter.'
I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film. Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
I've always tried to really focus on The Hunger Games movie, knowing that, yes, these are amazing books and I would feel like a failure, if I didn't get all three of them made.
