"I just hope, every now and then, the studios still slip one of my movies in." — John Lee Hancock

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.'

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

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.

Whenever a film has three different release dates, people understandably assume that there must be something wrong with it.

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.

'The Blind Side' took forever to get it out of 20th Century Fox in turnaround. It was one of three different movies I was involved with then. 'The Blind Side' just happened to be the one that got made.

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

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

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