The best leaders operate in four dimensions: vision, reality, ethics, and courage.
Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.
Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.
I don't care what people think about me. Never did, never will. Life is too short to be worrying about that.
Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.
I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.
I'm romantic. I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations. The other day, I saw a tramp polishing his shoes. That just gripped my heart.
Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation—without the pestilence of panic or fear.
"You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?" "Not even a little bit. " I showed him that I still had both arms and both legs, and Tyson clapped happily. "Yay!" he said. "Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!" I hoped he didn't mean all at the same time, but I told him absolutely, we'd have a lot of fun this summer.
We both [with Suzanne Collins ] felt strongly that you wouldn't want to age up the characters, no matter the age of the actors playing the roles. They should be playing the age that they are in the [Hunger Games] books. It would let people off the hook, if you said, "Well, instead of 12 to 18, why don't you make them 18 to 25 or 16 to 21?" If you don't stay true to the horror of the fact that they are 12 to 18, you're not doing justice to the book.
Directing is about as visual as I get and I will leave artmaking to the rest of the family.