Making a film is to make sure that everybody looks forward to coming to work. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
The reason most of us go to the movies is to be involved in someone else's moral dilemma. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
'Forrest Gump' was great, it was fabulous. It lasted much longer than anybody thought, and brought me a degree of attention that… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
My wife and I, we met making a movie. This is not just our job, it's our life. It's what we do… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
The "Toy Story" films accomplish what timeless classics aim for - innocent characters who face an endless trail of adventures. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I'm not saying I'm not bummed if a movie doesn't do well, but that isn't the final analysis of whether it's any… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I love my family and I love my kids, but when the moments come, it's not as though you can just substitute… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I always think, 'We don't need… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I'm not looking for anything. If you start looking for something specific, then you take providence right out of it. You can't… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI,… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
The filmmakers aren't running the studios anymore. Sometimes people who like films are making them, but by and large, they have to… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Mass-market movies have become about one thing. They kind of declare themselves right off the bat. . . . But when I… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Audiences crave something they've never seen before. That's what they want. They want to be dazzled. They want to go in either… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
When you're going to try and have people talk in a room and actually reflect life as we know it and have… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
“Hey, I got an idea, let’s go to the movies. I wanna go to the movies, I want to take you all… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it. It's done. That's… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Directing is a constant test of your communicative powers. You're constantly trying to explain people your vision of what you want and… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
A story has the opportunity to enlighten us, because as we connect the extraordinary moments on film with the ordinary moments of… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
The average movie set is the least political arena on Earth. Nobody bothers talking about politics because, one, we all love the… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I'm lucky enough to be able to make only movies I'm interested in seeing. That has to be an instinctive thrust. The… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I've worked with people who are much further to the left than I am and much further to the right than I am. At… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
In the 1998 Oscars, I found myself in the bathroom in a stall, next to Tom Selleck. So I leaned over and I said… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Mass-market movies have become about one thing. They kind of declare themselves right off the bat. . . . But when I go to… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes.… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I try to do what I call the three E's - educate, entertain, and enlighten. If you don't entertain, no one will show up.… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
We're part of a greater humanity and we can actually affect the world by the choices we make once we leave the theater. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Let's not pretend there isn't a huge industry driven by the choices made by editors and writers who decide what a story is. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
