List of Tom Hanks Quotes

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.

All The Kids Are Gone. It's The Greatest Thing That Has Ever Happened To Mr. And Mrs. Tom Hanks. I'll Tell You That Right Now. Second Greatest After Having The Kids In The First Place. When They Go, Holy Smoke, It's Like You're Dating Again. It's Fantastic. Also, We Were Doing An Awful Lot Of Work.

An Animatic Is A Process Where Every Voice And Every Sound Effect Is Added To Rough Animated Drawings And It Lasts Exactly As Long As The Final Movie. So You Actually Get To Go Into A Screening Room With The Rest Of The Cast And You Get To See It All At The Same Time.

The Pixar People Continuously Amaze Me. They Come Up With Something That Actually Looks As Though It Takes Place In This Happy, Real-world. Every Plot Line Is Not Just Plausible, But Oddly Authentic. The Stories Are Full Of Adventure, Humor And Love. The Characters Are Written With Great Human Dimension. I Don't Know How They Do It But They Astound Me.

The Filmmakers Aren't Running The Studios Anymore. Sometimes People Who Like Films Are Making Them, But By And Large, They Have To Go Report Quarterly Earnings And All That Stuff. The Competition Is So Huge That It's Very Hard To Get People To Show Up To See Any Movie In The Theater, Much Less An Original One That Isn't A Version Of Something Else They Saw.

I Don't Think Anybody's Mind's Gonna Be Changed.

In The Early Days You Have A Tendency To Intellectualize, But You're Really Just Trying To Sound Smart And Score With The Chicks.

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.

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 Good.

Everyone Says, "you Have To Work At Relationships." Sometimes You've Got To Work, But If You're Working 60 Percent Of The Time And Only Enjoying It 40 Percent...

My Son Is A Gentleman And A Professional Who Is Pursuing Something Difficult. Yet The Only Thing He Has Ever Asked Me For Is Advice - Never Favors. He Has Just Said, "what Do You Think I Should Do, Dad?" It's Extraordinary To Me That My Son Would Listen To And Have Faith In Whatever Wisdom I Can Offer.

I Don't Follow Football, I Just Love The Name Aston Villa. Here In England You Have Other Footballing Entities Like Manchester And Arsenal And Chelsea