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