You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that.

Career
Hancock's debut as a screenwriter and director came in 1991 with Hard Time Romance. John Lee Hancock Jr. In 2004 he wrote and directed The Alamo which was highly unsuccessful at the box office and would become the second-highest box office bomb in movie history.

John Lee Hancock Jr. (born December 15 1956) is an American screenwriter film director and producer. He is best known for directing the sports drama films The Rookie and The Blind Side.