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131 | John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side, Saving Mr. Banks) On Empathy In Our Writing And Directing

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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How to Know if a Project Is Right for You

I try not to have any hard and fast rules because anytime I've laid out what my career, what I thought my career should be, I change my mind like six months later. But for instance, I don't really look forward or plan on directing anymore sports movies. So that's kind of crossed off. And so my agent said, look, it's a really good script. Read 10 pages. If it doesn't speak to you, it doesn’t speak to you."

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