Nina Jacobson

“We owe it to the audience to put more characters onscreen that reflect them and that speak to issues of race and gender as well as to a character's sexual preference.”

“Dogs in the office are very important.”

“When I became a producer, I told myself I will finally be able to bring my dog to work.”

“The way we like to think of ourselves is not the way we look. We like to think of ourselves as more evolved than we frequently are.”

“I've been fortunate enough to match up the material I'm producing with the right buyer, the company that will make it and that wants it, and that isn't saying yes to be nice, but is saying yes because they want and need that movie and it's going to be important on their slate.”

“I don't understand why people still behave as though making movies with female protagonists is risky, given that - hello - we do make up over 50 percent of the population, and we go to movies.”

“To me, a great story well told is a great story well told, and just because the protagonist is a young adult doesn't mean that story has less merit or worth than if the protagonist is a full-grown adult.”

“I think that women are underrepresented behind the camera as directors.”

“As a studio executive, I took the approach that people are competent until proven otherwise. But when you make a movie, because there is so little time to fix things when they break, you have to almost come to it with the mindset that everyone is incompetent until proven otherwise.”

“Television is often out ahead on social issues. With film, we've only recently proved that one of the oldest misconceptions in the book is wrong, which is the idea that girls will see films with boys as protagonists, but boys won't see movies with girls as protagonists.”

“I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love.”

“When you're younger and you see something that really speaks to you, it's indelible in a way that's not the same as when you're an adult. So I'll always love reading books and making movies that resonate with young people.”

“Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer.”

“Suzanne Collins, it was such a big thing for me to make the handshake with her and to say, 'You can trust me. I will not screw up your books. And I won't let them be diluted and softened. And I won't let them be exploited and made guilty of the sins that are being commented on in the books.' I take that really seriously.”

“Honestly, I don't think it's harder to be a producer as a woman. I think it helps me because I don't get bogged down in shows of male dominance that can sometimes get in the way of the best idea prevailing.”

“I know many filmmakers, and shooting in IMAX is challenging. Filmmakers love the vividness and power of those big images.”

“We always want to congratulate ourselves at having made more progress than we actually have.”

“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.”

“My daughter and I have this thing we call a PMA: 'perfect moment alert.' I try to really notice when we're having a PMA.”

“Ultimately, only audiences decide what's a franchise.”