"Sometimes you film in your hometown, sometimes you go halfway across the world."

"After I read 'The Hunger Games,' I went out and got 'Catching Fire' the next day."

"I do not want to play a character who is exactly like me."

"It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language and your facial expressions."

"Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost."

"My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true."

"I was born and raised in North Little Rock, Arkansas. I was 15 when I got my first job serving food to the residents in a retirement home - 22 years later I would shoot my first film in one."

"People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope."