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" Christian audiences, I think, have grown very tired of movies that try to pander to them. "

John Lee Hancock

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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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" 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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" 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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" I really don't storyboard unless it's an action sequence of some kind, but I plan carefully. "

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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 just hope, every now and then, the studios still slip one of my movies in. "

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" A good deed is a good deed. "

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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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" 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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" Any time you have people of different races in a movie that's about America, there's going to be a racial component. "

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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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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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" Don't worry about the little factual details. Get to the heart of it. "

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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'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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" 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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" Every director knows it is his job to be manipulative. When you make an edit, you are trying to manipulate. "

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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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" 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. "

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" I grew up in a refinery town in Texas, and we weren't fancy enough to have a McDonald's. "

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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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" 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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