The Hunger Games (film)

"I volunteer! No! I volunteer! I volunteer as tribute!"

"[to Seneca Crane, bowing mockingly] Thank you for your consideration."

"You know what my mother said? 'It looks like District 12 may finally have a winner.' But she wasn't talking about me. She was talking about you."

"[voiceover] War, terrible war. Widows, orphans, a motherless child. This was the uprising that rocked our land. Thirteen districts rebelled against the country that fed them, loved them, protected them. Brother turned on brother until nothing remained. And then came the peace, hard fought, sorely won. A people rose up from the ashes and a new era was born. But freedom has a cost. When the traitors were defeated, we swore as a nation we would never know this treason again. And so it was decreed, that each year, the various districts of Panem would offer up in tribute, one young man and woman, to fight to the death in a pageant of honor, courage and sacrifice. The lone victor, bathed in riches, would serve as a reminder of our generosity and our forgiveness. This is how we remember our past. This is how we safeguard our future."

"Welcome, welcome! Tributes, we welcome you! We salute your courage and your sacrifice. And we wish you Happy Hunger Games, and may the odds be ever in your favour."

"[Holding Peeta hostage] Go on! Shoot, then we both go down and you win. Go on! I'm dead anyway! I always was, right? I didn't know that until now. [Readies to break Peeta's neck] How's that, is that what they want? Huh? I can still do this!... I can still do this. One more kill. It's the only thing I know how to do. Bringing pride to my district! Not that it matters."

"May the Odds be Ever in your Favor"

"The Games Will Change Everyone"

"The World Will Be Watching"

"The Hunger Games novel was gory and disturbing for a reason, says Hendrix. Just like Battle Royale, it's supposed to communicate war's horrors to young teenagers. Hendrix worries that the Hunger Games movie will tone down the violence, and thereby make it exciting. "The line between making violence graphic and upsetting and making violence graphic and cool is a very narrow one," he says."

"I’m trying to capture what was visceral in the books, which is your first-person present tense narrative, and that’s gonna require a certain amount of subjectivity. In order to be in Katniss’ point of view and in her shoes — what being in a character’s point of view is, is restricting the information that the audience has to what that character has, and not being writer omniscient. I’m not cutting from place-to-place, I’m moving in this serpentine, destabilized path as Katniss wanders through this world. That’s not only true in the shooting style, it’s also true in the editing style. … This was a very conscious decision to create a very subjective style because the books are so subjective, they’re first-person and they’re urgent and you see the world as she sees the world, so that was the reason for it."

"Jennifer Lawrence - Katniss Everdeen"

"Josh Hutcherson - Peeta Mellark"

"Liam Hemsworth - Gale Hawthorne"

"Woody Harrelson - Haymitch Abernathy"

"Elizabeth Banks - Effie Trinket"

"Lenny Kravitz - Cinna"

"Stanley Tucci - Caesar Flickerman"

"Donald Sutherland - President Coriolanus Snow"

"Wes Bentley - Seneca Crane"

"Toby Jones - Claudius Templesmith"

"Alexander Ludwig - Cato"

"Isabelle Fuhrman - Clove"

"Amandla Stenberg - Rue"

"Jack Quaid - Marvel"

"Leven Rambin - Glimmer"

"Dayo Okeniyi - Thresh"

"Jacqueline Emerson - Foxface"

"Paula Malcomson - Mrs. Everdeen"

"Willow Shields - Primrose Everdeen"