Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel… — 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
There's a small percentage of people who can act. There's a small percentage who get to do this for a living. There's… — 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
I start at square one with every role. If I let myself feel pressure, it would crush me. The truth is that… — 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
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
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
“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
The same way that I know that I'll never do a movie as good or as celebrated as 'Forrest Gump,' I know… — 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
I've made quite a number of movies like Castaway and a few others where I'm the only guy in the movie and… — 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
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
An animatic is a process where every voice and every sound effect is added to rough animated drawings and it lasts exactly… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig. — 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
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
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
The reason most of us go to the movies is to be involved in someone else's moral dilemma. — 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
I would like to think I've reflected the audience's lives somehow, though it's in this big, false, glamorous arena of movies. I… — 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
