Tom Hanks – Quotes Crazy

My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. Its just not December without that movie in my house. – Tom Hanks

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. Its not a miracle we just decided to go. – Tom Hanks

You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what its 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. – Tom Hanks

Its always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. Its hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope. – Tom Hanks

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and theyre all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire. – Tom Hanks

Its just as hard… staying happily married as it is doing movies. – Tom Hanks

Ive made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good. – 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 youre seeing the movie, you know its something different. – Tom Hanks

Thats whats nice about directing a film and having it done: Theres nothing more I can do about it. Its done. Thats it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it. – Tom Hanks

If it wasnt hard, everyone would do it. Its the hard that makes it great. – Tom Hanks

At the end of the day its got to be a good movie, its got to be a funny movie, and its got to make people think, Hey, I couldnt have spent my time any better. – Tom Hanks

No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I dont parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay. – Tom Hanks

The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. Its not going to put any other type of movies out of business. – Tom Hanks

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I dont want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, theres a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly. – Tom Hanks

And Im not apolitical – Im very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time its nobodys business unless youre over at my house having dinner. – Tom Hanks

As long as you as an individual… can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as one of the faithful, one of those people who can say, Well, look, somethings going to happen! Lets just keep trying. Lets not give up. – Tom Hanks

As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didnt feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good. – Tom Hanks

But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think Im very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time. – Tom Hanks

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal. – Tom Hanks

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment. – Tom Hanks