"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 go, "This is something I need to explore and want to explore, and it's inside me in a way that I think I can do a good job with.""

Source : "Director John Lee Hancock Talks SAVING MR. BANKS, Why He Takes Time Between Projects, Working with Disney’s Legal Department, and THE AMERICAN CAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 18, 2013.

John Lee Hancock

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“I tattooed my body so I couldn't fall back on anything. I purposely did that so I couldn't get a normal job and live a normal life. I did it so I had to play music.”

Source : "Pop Quiz: Travis Baker". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. June 26, 2005.
“Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.”

Source : "Vera Farmiga: 'I demand a lot from myself'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2011.
“I think I know a lot about campaigns.”
“There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.”

Source : "2010 BPM and Workflow Handbook" by Layna Fischer, Future Strategies Inc., (p. 178), 2010.
“It is as natural and reasonable for a dependent creature to apply to its Creator for what it needs, as for a child thus to solicit the aid of a parent who is believed to have the disposition and ability to bestow what it needs.”

Source : Archibald Alexander (2009). “Outlines of Moral Science”, p.264, Applewood Books
“Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.”
“Most of us don't work out what we want. And most of us end up with lopsided lives as a result.”
“That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?”

"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 go, "This is something I need to explore and want to explore, and it's inside me in a way that I think I can do a good job with.""

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