Nina Jacobson
Nina Jacobson
Nina Jacobsonis an American film executive who, until July 2006, was president of the Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. With Dawn Steel, Gail Berman and Sherry Lansing, she was one of the last of a handful of women to head a Hollywood film studio since the 1980s. She established her own production company called Color Force in 2007, and is the producer of The Hunger Games movies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinesswoman
CountryUnited States of America
audience
Ultimately, only audiences decide what's a franchise.
producers filmmaker
Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer.
should-have games people
[On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: "People should have ignored the five racist idiots.
block games want
Deb Zane, our casting director on the Hunger Games was very sanguine, from the beginning, about just blocking out what everybody else says that they want.
exciting ifs cellphone
It's an exciting time, when you can make your movie on a cellphone. If it's good, it WILL get noticed.
ideas different passionate
When fans get very passionate about a movie, they just want you to do it well. They don't want you to screw it up. Their idea of doing it well might be different than yours, but ultimately, they really just don't want you to mess up the thing that they love.
sleep forever break
As a producer, you can't break up w/your own project. It's like sleeping with someone that you don't like... Forever.
miami-heat miami heat
Only audiences decide what's a franchise. Only audiences decide what's a hit. I have always been mindful of not wanting to be the Miami Heat of movies.
careers people fever
I was an executive before I was a producer, and I've seen franchise fever grow, over the course of my career. The one thing that people always forget is that it's only a franchise if audiences really want to see more of it. It's up to them. It's really not up to us.
shoes
I never had to put myself in somebody else's shoes.
shoes fans ardent
I'm an ardent fan. All I really had to do was put myself in my own shoes.
smart book thinking
There is a young fella who works for me, named Brian Unkeless, who's very smart. We're a very small company that has been Brian and me and two assistants, although we're growing a little bit now. He read the [The Hunger Games] book and loved it, and told me I should read it. He had been a fan of the Gregor books. So, I read it and couldn't put it down and couldn't stop thinking about it. I really became obsessed with the thought of producing it, and was completely bothered by the idea that anybody but me could produce it.
smart thinking ideas
The hiring of Phil Messina, the production designer, was a big decision. He's so gifted, and his ideas were always so smart and rooted in American history and architecture. Nothing feels like it's not us, or couldn't be us, and I think that's very important.
helpful filmmaking approach
The "If you build it, they will come" approach to filmmaking has always been helpful to me.