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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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The Joy of Rewriting

"There's this little moment of joy when you hit on a certain cadence or, you know, a scene changes in a way where you're moved," he says. "You always have to draw a line in the sand and go, I, I, we can't cut this." He adds that there are several scenes 'I'm very proud of the ending of that movie' The writer-director also talks about what pisses him off most during filming.

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