Tom Hanks Quotes
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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.
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College isn't necessary for everybody and it's only from what you put into it what you go there for.
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Directing is a constant test of your communicative powers. You're constantly trying to explain people your vision of what you want and steer these tiny little details into a cohesive thing.
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I come from the school of That Horse is Not Dead.
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I know that my work in this case is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels. We know their names. They number a thousand for each one of the red ribbons that we wear here tonight. They finally rest in the warm embrace of the gracious creator of us all. A healing embrace that cools their fevers, that clears their skin, and allows their eyes to see the simple, self-evident, common sense truth that is made manifest by the benevolent creator of us all...
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Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day.
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The average movie set is the least political arena on Earth. Nobody bothers talking about politics because, one, we all love the job so much. You don't talk about current events. You talk about old show business stories and whether or not there's gonna be French onion dip at the craft services table that day.
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If I stopped having passion, I'd be done.
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If they could offer up a way to go to the moon that wouldn't kill you, I'd sign up.
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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 the end of the day, who gives a ... . Good for you. This is America. Vote your conscience.
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Help and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.
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As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't 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.
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We are all God's animated cartoons.
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I don't think anybody's mind's gonna be changed.
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Audiences crave something they've never seen before. That's what they want. They want to be dazzled. They want to go in either to have their expectations blown out of the water, or have no expectations and are dazzled by the decisions that we filmmakers made.
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If I have no connection with the character, then it's all fake - it's just blah, blah, blah.
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When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the war like it was the Kraken - you know, this huge beast that roamed the earth during their formative years.
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I know how the Academy Awards works: It's a card game, and I'm in the toss-up category.
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If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.
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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.
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It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.
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For some people, I will be Forrest Gump for the rest of my life. But that's OK; that's a good thing.
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My work is really a blast. When it stops being a blast, then it ain't no fun no more!
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The reason most of us go to the movies is to be involved in someone else's moral dilemma.