Quotes by John Lee Hancock - Page 1

A good deed is a good deed.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Deeds
Good Deeds
Deed
Good Deed
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Don't worry about the little factual details. Get to the heart of it.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Details
Factual
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I just hope, every now and then, the studios still slip one of my movies in.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Now And Then
Studios
Slip
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We did not go to that many movies in a theater in the little town I grew up in.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Theater
Little Town
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I grew up in a refinery town in Texas, and we weren't fancy enough to have a McDonald's.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Fancy
Refinery
Texas
Mcdonald
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Christian audiences, I think, have grown very tired of movies that try to pander to them.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Tired
Audiences
Grown
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When you are older, you want to be around people you admire, even in their personal lives.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Personal Lives
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I really don't storyboard unless it's an action sequence of some kind, but I plan carefully.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Sequence
Carefully
Storyboard
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I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Anger
Cynicism
Suppressing
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Every director knows it is his job to be manipulative. When you make an edit, you are trying to manipulate.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Manipulate
Edit
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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.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Australia
Mary
Tragic
Mary Poppins
Origin
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Any time you have people of different races in a movie that's about America, there's going to be a racial component.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Movie
Time People America
Component
Races
Racial
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I think any time you've got a story based on a true story, no matter how accurate it is, obviously it's still fictitious.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Matter
Stories
Thinking
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Whenever a film has three different release dates, people understandably assume that there must be something wrong with it.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Release
Assume
Dates
Whenever
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If America had a motto, it would be pull yourself up by the bootstraps, work harder than the next guy, have a goal and achieve it.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Bootstraps
Motto
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I've never read a script in which you are actively pulling for the protagonist in the beginning, but little by little, you lose that.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Actively
In The Beginning
Protagonist
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You pick a project. You think, 'I can succeed at this. I can help them. I can make it so that they'll want to call me again the next time.'
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Next Time
Time Me Help
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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.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Good Story
Involved
Messages
Stories
Good Bad Always
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I've got twins and a lovely wife and a great life and I don't want to miss that. So if I'm going to miss that it's got to be for something really good.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Lovely
Missing
Wife
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Every generation comes upon the movie again, and then, invariably, the books have a spike in sales because people want to read more about Mary Poppins.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Mary
People More Want
Generation
Invariably
Mary Poppins
Sales
Spike
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A corporation that is publicly traded, it has one goal: to make money. It doesn't have a soul. If it does have a soul, it comes from the people who run it.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Corporation
Publicly
Traded
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Someone is going to win and someone is going to lose. That's also what happens in almost every movie - someone is going to win and someone is going to lose.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Happens
Loses
Winning
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How many superhero movies can we have? It seems like there are 19 a week. They're making money, though, and people are going to see them. So, I get it. I understand completely.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Making Money
Superhero
Money Movies People
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I think that, anybody with a strong will to tell a story, then that is fantastic. I think it's fantastic. I think sometimes people have what I'll call an ulterior motive with a story.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Motive
People Sometimes Will
Ulterior
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I like some time away to recharge the batteries, not only physically, but emotionally so that I get to the point where I'm just dying to direct again and then that's the right time to do it again.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Batteries
Dying
Time Away
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I like some time away to recharge the batteries, not only physically but emotionally, so that I get to the point where I'm just dying to direct again, and then that's the right time to do it again.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Batteries
Dying
Emotionally
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'The Blind Side' took forever to get it out of 20th Century Fox in turnaround. It was one of three different movies I was involved with then. 'The Blind Side' just happened to be the one that got made.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Blind
Forever
Involved
Turnaround
Fox
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Somebody might say that they always wanted to be a fly-fishing guide in Montana and maybe they'll never get to do that but just by the virtue of having said it out loud, I think there's some power in that.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Fishing
Loud
Montana
Thinking
Virtue
Power Always Never
Guide
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We felt a responsibility to the McDonald brothers and to Ray Kroc to be as factual as possible. We didn't have a responsibility to make anyone look good or anybody look bad, just to try our best to be honest.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Factual
Felt
Honest
Responsibility
Best Good Look
Best Good Responsibility
Anybody
Brothers
Mcdonald
Ray
To Be Honest
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Many years ago, I was a producer on a movie called 'My Dog Skip.' Willie Morris, the great southern writer, had written the book. We had adapted it and taken 17 years of his life and compressed it into one year.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Movie
Adapted
Book
Morris
Skip
Southern
Taken
Years Ago
Writer
Producer
Willie
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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.'
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Something Special
Visiting
Wyoming
Time Remember First Time
Mcdonald
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We have the word 'Mc' attached to so many things now, like 'McMansions.' It's become part of our vernacular as something on steroids almost, just bigger and bigger. I think, to a degree, studios have fallen prey to that as well.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Bigger
Fallen
Prey
Studios
Vernacular
Attached
Degree
Steroids
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I'm not only a writer, but have directed and produced, know the difficulties of the line producer, can deal with the studio, can talk with the director and get his or her vision and help exact that. I think it just gives you more tools.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Giving
Thinking
Vision
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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. Your job No. 1 is for it to be entertaining, and if it's inspiring, that is great, too.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Inspiring
Entertaining
Good Story
Good Great Always
Good Great Bad
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'Snow White and the Huntsman' was - I came in before they started shooting and basically worked on Charlize Theron's character for the most part. I guess I probably worked four or five weeks on that one and stayed during production a little bit with them.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Five
Little Bit
Shooting
Snow
Snow White
Basically
Weeks
Guess
Production
Stayed
Worked
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I got an English degree in college and then went to law school because I didn't know what else to do. I was a lawyer in Houston, Texas. I started writing plays and screenplays, and after about three years of practicing, I decided I would move to Los Angeles and give it a shot.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
College
Decided
Houston
Law School
Los Angeles
Screenplays
Texas
Angeles
Shot
English
Degree
Los
Move
Plays
Practicing
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I usually have to find something where I go, "I have to do this." Sometimes you don't even know what the question you're trying to answer is, but you go, "This is something I need to explore and want to explore, and it's inside me in a way that I think I can do a good job with."
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Jobs
Thinking
Trying
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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.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Astronaut
Grew
Moon
One Time
Texas
Writer
Anybody
Director
City
Far
Grandparents
Parents
Likely
Met
Nearby
To The Moon
Whose
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Every time you do a true story - and I've done a few - you have to look in the mirror and say, 'That's close enough. I'm comfortable with this.' You're always going to compress time; you're going to change the order of things. But I don't think you want to tell a big lie. You want to think that you're embracing the truth.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Comfortable
Order
True Story
Change Time Truth
Close
Compress
Embracing
Every Time
Lie
Few
Change Truth Time
Mirror
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Christian audience, I think, have grown very tired of movies that try to pander to them. For instance if someone goes, "Ok, we're designing what we're going to do with this movie. It's a Christian movie and they'll eat it up." And you know what? Consumers are smarter than that. They go, "The movie isn't that great and he thought that I would just be a sucker and plop my $10 down for it?" Because you're looking down at the audience. You can't pander to an audience.
John Lee Hancock / Screenwriter
Christian
Thinking
Tired
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