I really don’t storyboard unless it’s an action sequence of some kind, but I plan carefully. John Lee Hancock Read Quote
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. John Lee Hancock Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. John Lee Hancock Read Quote
I just hope, every now and then, the studios still slip one of my movies in. John Lee Hancock Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I didn’t know the books and certainly didn’t know the tragic origin story of Mary Poppins in 1906 Australia. John Lee Hancock Read Quote
I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted. John Lee Hancock Read Quote
Christian audiences, I think, have grown very tired of movies that try to pander to them. John Lee Hancock Read Quote
