American - Writer | December 15, 1956 -
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted.
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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.
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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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A good deed is a good deed.
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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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We did not go to that many movies in a theater in the little town I grew up in.
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When you are older, you want to be around people you admire, even in their personal lives.
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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.
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