John Lee Hancock Quotes
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Every director knows it is his job to be manipulative. When you make an edit, you are trying to manipulate.
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I really don't storyboard unless it's an action sequence of some kind, but I plan carefully.
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For every one that gets made, there are five other movies that you try to get made that you don't.
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I remember going to McDonald's for the first time probably when I was in college. And then I remember going and visiting a friend in Wyoming, and he said, 'We're going to do something special. We're going to McDonald's.'
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Christian audiences, I think, have grown very tired of movies that try to pander to them.
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I didn't know the books and certainly didn't know the tragic origin story of Mary Poppins in 1906 Australia.
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You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that.
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I grew up in Texas City, Texas. I didn't know anybody who was a director or whose parents or grandparents were directors. I met somebody from a nearby town one time whose father had been to the moon - it was far more likely to be an astronaut than it was to be a writer or a director.
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Don't worry about the little factual details. Get to the heart of it.
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I just hope, every now and then, the studios still slip one of my movies in.
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Whenever a film has three different release dates, people understandably assume that there must be something wrong with it.
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I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted.