“The interviewing position for the Hunger Games was randomly offered to me and I ignorantly accepted. Now I’m trapped. No matter how much I wanted to be fired or quit, I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t trust anyone else with the job.

I have to be there for those poor kids before they enter the arena, I have to make them feel happy and loved one last time…

I hope I have succeeded in that task. I’ve interviewed thousands of tributes and I hope that each and every one of them felt that one last surge of hope and happiness before the games.

All of them have sat across from me in that beautiful golden chair and almost all of them are dead. I hate that chair. It is a symbol of death and evil to me because 95% of the tributes who have been interviewed in that chair are dead. That is why I can’t quit. I can’t quit on those poor tributes as they sit in the chair so similar to death. I have to be there for them before they pass on into the deadliest game there is.”

- Reflections, Caesar Flickerman (x)