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
fortunate material producing saying wants yes
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.
roots people want
Nobody roots for people who presume success. You have to earn success, and success is earned by making a movie that audiences like and want to see more of.
book games want
We didn't want to dilute or soften the material because that would really be irresponsible, in its own way. The [Hunger Games] books are very intense and very demanding of the reader, and the movie should be that too.
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.
exists tonal tone within
When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination.
amazing cameras image incredible mindful scale whether
The IMAX cameras are big and heavy. And they're loud. So you have to be mindful of whether or not they're worth it; I'd say the image quality is incredible and the scale is amazing.
aim family glad interested kids matter subject taste terms wit worry
When doing family entertainment, you don't actually worry about kids. You know what you can't do. But in terms of sensibility and sophistication and wit and ambition, aim for your own taste level, and kids will - if they're interested in the subject matter - be glad that you did.
love
When I love a book, I really love a book. You don't get that very often.
books fall love trying
I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love.
women
I think that women are underrepresented behind the camera as directors.
developed good movies
Getting movies developed doesn't do me any good as a producer. It only does me good to get movies made.
far female few fewer writers
There are still so few female directors. There are far fewer writers than we'd like to see.
call notice
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.
filmmakers love power shooting
I know many filmmakers, and shooting in IMAX is challenging. Filmmakers love the vividness and power of those big images.