One of the big themes – if not the big theme – of ‘Mockingjay – Part 1’ is the battle of the airwaves. I don’t think teenagers really understand the role propaganda has in our lives in terms of politics, advertising, and the general manipulation of imagery. Francis Lawrence Read Quote
Last Man on Earth’… Vincent Price is one of my favorite actors; I think he was miscast. Francis Lawrence Read Quote
I’ve now made enough movies that I understand that people love to put things in a box. Francis Lawrence Read Quote
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. Francis Lawrence Read Quote
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. Francis Lawrence Read Quote
We actually started shooting the ‘Mockingjay’ movies before ‘Catching Fire’ was released. Francis Lawrence Read Quote
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. Francis Lawrence Read Quote
I never… it’s a hard thing: when I think about projects, I don’t come off something and go, ‘I really want to make a sci-fi film next,’ or ‘I really want to do a political thriller next.’ It’s really coming across – I’m really fascinated, partly by world building, but also about the character and what the journey is. Francis Lawrence Read Quote
