29 Quotes by Francis Lawrence

All the 'Hunger Games' stuff, we had a fantastic production designer, and he built amazing sets.

I love reluctant heroes, all of that.

It's kind of the filmmaker's job to use visual, cinematic language in a way possible to tell a story that reaches and touches as many people as possible.

We actually started shooting the 'Mockingjay' movies before 'Catching Fire' was released.

I'm attracted to the journeys of isolated characters.

I still wear Vans.

I remember 'Battlestar Galactica' shot at the college that my dad taught at. I remember trying on a Cylon helmet. I think I was 6 or 7 years old.

When I signed on and went and did 'Catching Fire,' the majority of it was done in Atlanta for rebate reasons. Luckily, that worked because there's forest. There's old rail stations and factories and lots of stuff we can use and sound stages. For the tropical stuff, we went to Hawaii.

I've now made enough movies that I understand that people love to put things in a box.