American - Writer | December 15, 1956 -
Every director knows it is his job to be manipulative. When you make an edit, you are trying to manipulate.
John Lee Hancock
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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Christian audiences, I think, have grown very tired of movies that try to pander to them.
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It is so hard to get movies made in Hollywood that you got to have six going at once, and you know, probably none of those get made.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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