John Lee Hancock

“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.”

“I didn't know the books and certainly didn't know the tragic origin story of Mary Poppins in 1906 Australia.”

“I grew up in a refinery town in Texas, and we weren't fancy enough to have a McDonald's.”

“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.”

“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.'”

“We did not go to that many movies in a theater in the little town I grew up in.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“A good deed is a good deed.”

“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.”

“For every one that gets made, there are five other movies that you try to get made that you don't.”