Author Profile
John Lee Hancock
1956 • American • Writer
36
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 36 quotesI 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
I grew up in a refinery town in Texas, and we weren't fancy enough to have a McDonald's.— John Lee Hancock
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
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
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
I didn't know the books and certainly didn't know the tragic origin story of Mary Poppins in 1906 Australia.— John Lee Hancock
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
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
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
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
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
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.— John Lee Hancock
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
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
When you are older, you want to be around people you admire, even in their personal lives.— John Lee Hancock