Nina Jacobson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I'm very superstitious. I come from a family that's big on not painting the nursery until the baby is home.
-- Nina Jacobson

#Baby #Home #Nurse
I think that one of the greatest perspectives that I have, from being a buyer for my whole career until I became a producer, is that I have a pretty good understanding of the buyers mentality.
-- Nina Jacobson

#Thinking #Careers #Perspective
Ultimately, only audiences decide what's a franchise.
-- Nina Jacobson

#Audience
I can't imagine Hunger Games, even with its very popular books, being nearly a success that it's been without Jen Lawrence being the perfect person to play that role - a very modern celebrity, a very down-to-earth, accessible, celebrity.
-- Nina Jacobson

#Book #Games #Play
Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer.
-- Nina Jacobson

#Producers #Filmmaker
[On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: "People should have ignored the five racist idiots.
-- Nina Jacobson

#Games #People #Racist
[On The Hunger Games success]: "It hit on the zeitgeist of the disparity b/w the haves and have nots.
-- Nina Jacobson

#Games #Hunger #Zeitgeist
The most powerful decision-making part of the audience is women. Boys have a lot of impact on the industry, but it's often women who impact what stories get made.
-- Nina Jacobson

#Powerful #Boys #Impact
It's an exciting time, when you can make your movie on a cellphone. If it's good, it WILL get noticed.
-- Nina Jacobson

#Exciting #Cellphone
As a producer, you can't break up w/your own project. It's like sleeping with someone that you don't like... Forever.
-- Nina Jacobson

#Sleep #Forever #Break
There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into the fold.
-- Nina Jacobson

#Community #Welcome #Authorship

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