Film director Neil Burger talks about Divergent, The Hunger Games and how he feels about both movies in an interview.

Burger spoke with The Daily Beast's Kevin Fallon, who asked the Divergent movie director how his film fairs out with The Hunger Games. "At first, I was like, 'Hmm ... is it too close to these others projects?'"

"The Hunger Games," Burger clarified, when prodded which 'other projects' he was referring to. "A little bit. It's a female heroine in a dystopic world. That's pretty much where it begins and ends, but even with that, you hear about the similarities all the time," he told Fallon.

The Divergent movie director also admitted that he loves The Hunger Games saying, "I love The Hunger Games! Divergent is just, to me, very different. You know?"

Neil Burger says that the difference between the two films lie in the finer details of Divergent's plot. According to him, being compared to The Hunger Games is "inevitable," and often times, he has to deal with "Oh you're the next Hunger Games?" or "You're just a copy cat."

But Burger remarks, "I think Veronica (Divergent author) has her finger on something that's kind of elemental and universal, no matter what your age - those questions of 'Do I need to conform to what everyone else is doing? Do I hide that I'm different? Do I pretend to be the same? Or if I am true to my own voice, what are the consequences of that?'"

Divergent stars Shailene Woodley who plays Tris, a "divergent," which, according to The Daily Beast is someone who possesses the traits of more than one faction. Tris is apparently hunted down by a secret government in the movie.

The film also stars Theo James, Kate Winslet, Ashley Judd, Jai Courtney, Ray Stevenson, Ansel Elgort and more. Divergent hits US theaters March 21.

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