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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 Importance of Ambivalence

"I had a blind picture deal with Warner Brothers and Steven Spielberg to kind of come up with something to write. And I came up with that story as an original and it just always, it just always stuck with me," he said. "It says it's a Rorschach for the, for the individual viewer." The film was originally going to be directed by Danny DeVito but then Dean Para took over.

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