Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.

Ross took on the high-profile project of co-adapting and directing the film adaptation of the first book in Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy. He went on to write several other successful films including Mr. Co-written with his neighbor Anne Spielberg (sister of Steven) it led to an Academy Award nomination and a Writers Guild of America Award.

Gary Ross (born November 3 1956) is an American writer director and actor. Big was his first produced script. Although the movie was financially and critically successful Ross opted to not adapt or direct the sequels citing his focus on the first film in the series as his main reason.