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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. "
People
Goal
Run
" A good deed is a good deed. "
Good
Deed
Good Deed
" Any time you have people of different races in a movie that's about America, there's going to be a racial component. "
Time
America
People
" Christian audiences, I think, have grown very tired of movies that try to pander to them. "
Think
Try
Tired
" Don't worry about the little factual details. Get to the heart of it. "
Heart
Little
Worry
" Every director knows it is his job to be manipulative. When you make an edit, you are trying to manipulate. "
Director
Trying
Make
" 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. "
Sales
People
More
" 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. "
Time
Truth
Change
" For every one that gets made, there are five other movies that you try to get made that you don't. "
Other
Movies
Five
" 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. "
Week
Making Money
Money
" I didn't know the books and certainly didn't know the tragic origin story of Mary Poppins in 1906 Australia. "
Books
Tragic
Australia
" 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. "
Goal
America
Up
" 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. "
Lawyer
School
Writing
" I grew up in a refinery town in Texas, and we weren't fancy enough to have a McDonald's. "
Fancy
Up
Town
" 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. "
Time
Texas
Moon
" I just hope, every now and then, the studios still slip one of my movies in. "
Now And Then
Hope
Just
" 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. "
Like
Time
Right Time
" I really don't storyboard unless it's an action sequence of some kind, but I plan carefully. "
Kind
Action
Plan
" 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.' "
Time
Remember
Special
" I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted. "
Anger
Things
Think
" 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. "
Think
People
Sometimes
" 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. "
Got
You
Movies
" 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. "
Lose
Little
Never
" 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. "
Year
Years
Great
" 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. "
Think
Always
Power
" 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. "
Win
Movie
Lose
" We did not go to that many movies in a theater in the little town I grew up in. "
Go
Movies
Theater
" 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. "
Look
Responsibility
Best
" 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. "
Become
Think
Prey
" Whenever a film has three different release dates, people understandably assume that there must be something wrong with it. "
Wrong
Three
Different
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