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…

- John Lee Hancock

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.

- John Lee Hancock

I usually have to find something where I go, "I have to do this." Sometimes you don't even know what the question you're trying to answer is, but you…

- John Lee Hancock

A good deed is a good deed.

- 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 havi…

- John Lee Hancock

I think any time you've got a story based on a true story, no matter how accurate it is, obviously it's still fictitious.

- John Lee Hancock

I'm not only a writer, but have directed and produced, know the difficulties of the line producer, can deal with the studio, can talk with the direct…

- John Lee Hancock

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 t…

- John Lee Hancock

I've got twins and a lovely wife and a great life and I don't want to miss that. So if I'm going to miss that it's got to be for something really goo…

- John Lee Hancock