Quotes from John Lee Hancock

'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.

I really don't storyboard unless it's an action sequence of some kind, but I plan carefully.

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.

I just hope, every now and then, the studios still slip one of my movies in.

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

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

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.

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