John Lee Hancock Quotes

'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made.

I would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe it will happen down the road. I would love to do a film in Africa.

I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV shows.

It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.

Over the years, many producers have come and gone, and screenplays were written and abandoned. It's the Hollywood process. It's hard to get things done.

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film.

I like making movies.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

As far as behind the scenes, I absolutely want to get into making my own films and producing my own things.

I love making movies.

Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.

There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt, even when I got out of school and started reading scripts - the really smart, character-driven stuff tends to be smaller films, and they just don't get made.

I take time to write my script, if I have more scripts, I will make more movies.

I get so many scripts a day but none of them inspires me. If I get a good inspiring script, then I will be most happy to make it into a film.

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.

It takes a long time to get a film made.

I guess I would model myself after the Bill Condons, the Frank Darabonts and the David Nutters if I were to direct a feature, which I would love to do, by the way.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

Anyone who has an imagination can write a book - it's cheap to do - but movies are big money.

I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.

It is up to us to produce better-quality movies.

Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don't. There's a lot of cooks in the kitchen when it comes to making a movie. When you hear a line of dialogue that sounds kind of tinny, it's pretty easy to cite the screenwriter. But there's a lot of stuff that goes into making a movie.

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.