When I go to movies and I love the movie it's because it feels like it articulated something about how we're living now and also gives me some insight into my own life. I feel actually altered after having seen it.

I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.

I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.

I just feel like with independent movies... they're really free to do whatever they want. They're not afraid to make a statement about anything and there's not a huge studio behind them making sure that everything is wholesome and politically correct and all that.

I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge responsibility to the fans of this incredible book and I don't take it lightly. I will give everything I have to these movies and to this role to make it worthy of Suzanne Collins' masterpiece.

I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.

I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do.

I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.

When I was a kid going into the movies you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.

I just love movies so suddenly you're political about movies and that's dark. It's just not fun when something you love becomes calculated.

You don't go to the movies to do historical research unless it's historical research about the movies.

I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think 'Well I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine I don't know how well I'd do.

Now there are so many movies so many festivals and so many awards going on each judged with each other like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art.

Well it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000 when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out.

The movies people don't talk about or remember after six months' time don't really matter.

And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb it's kind of what these movies are all about.