41 Quotes by John Lee Hancock

When you are older, you want to be around people you admire, even in their personal lives.

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

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.

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.'

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.

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.

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

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.

Whenever a film has three different release dates, people understandably assume that there must be something wrong with it.