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

~John Lee Hancock

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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.

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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.

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'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.

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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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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.

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

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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.

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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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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 15th, 1956

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