3 December 2020 Tom Hanks My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It’s just not December without that movie in my house.
3 December 2020 Tom Hanks 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 got to make people think, ‘Hey, I couldn’t have spent my time any better.’
3 December 2020 Tom Hanks The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.
3 December 2020 Tom Hanks From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It’s not a miracle we just decided to go.
3 December 2020 Tom Hanks Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
3 December 2020 Tom Hanks My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important.
3 December 2020 Tom Hanks You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it’s like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.
3 December 2020 Tom Hanks And I’m not apolitical – I’m very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it’s nobody’s business unless you’re over at my house having dinner.
3 December 2020 Tom Hanks It’s always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It’s hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.
3 December 2020 Tom Hanks Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you’re seeing the movie, you know it’s something different.
3 December 2020 Tom Hanks 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 it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it.
3 December 2020 Tom Hanks The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It’s not going to put any other type of movies out of business.
3 December 2020 Tom Hanks If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.
3 December 2020 Tom Hanks If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.
3 December 2020 Tom Hanks No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don’t parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.
3 December 2020 Tom Hanks The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they’re all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.
