Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal. Tom Hanks More Quotes by Tom Hanks More Quotes From Tom Hanks Once humankind has been some place and found it Tom Hanks moon race thinking 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. Tom Hanks play men two It just so happens that my body type and my lifestyle gives me a preclusion for high blood sugars. Tom Hanks body-types giving blood Oprah Winfrey today you are surrounded by nothing but love. Tom Hanks today love It's just as hard staying happily married as it is doing movies. Tom Hanks happily-married staying married It was incredibly cheesy set with torches [TV's Survivor] - it looked like the lobby of the Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyland. And here as some guy pulling names out of a coconut, and I said, 'This is the thing that has made American mass media stop in their tracks? Tom Hanks track media names The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite. Tom Hanks individuality infinite powerful Shake it off and move on. Tom Hanks shakes moving I am a lay historian by nature. I seek out an empirical reflection of what truth is. I sort of want dates and motivations and I want the whole story. But I've always felt, unconsciously, that all human history is that connection from person to person to person, event to event to event, and from idea to idea. Tom Hanks motivation reflection ideas I know the Pope is opposed to the use of condoms. All I can say is, I am a spiritual man and I've been happily married for 21 years. I don't even know what a condom is anymore. Tom Hanks spiritual men years 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. Tom Hanks growing-up teacher war Being politically correct means always having to say you're sorry. Believe me, the power and pleasure and the emotion of this moment is a constant speed of light. Tom Hanks sorry mean believe Dear God, thank you for my life. I forgot how big and wonderful it is. Tom Hanks dear-god bigs wonderful I come from the school of That Horse is Not Dead. Tom Hanks horse school If not for John Adams leading a revolution against Great Britain...This would be the BAFTAs. Tom Hanks britain revolution would-be Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as 'yellow, slant-eyed dogs' that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to what's going on today? Tom Hanks dog yellow war As a boy Id often spend my days biking on riverbeds and arroyos and come home exhausted. I realize now how much I took for granted having the natural world so close at hand. It wasnt until I moved away, first to New York and then to Los Angeles, that I realized how much I missed the outdoors. Tom Hanks new-york home boys 'Forrest Gump' was great, it was fabulous. It lasted much longer than anybody thought, and brought me a degree of attention that no human being on the face of the planet deserves. Tom Hanks fabulous degrees attention Yeah! I got type-two diabetes! I'm sure there's going to be some media scandal now, saying I got it because I gained and lost weight for movie parts or something - but I doubt that. Tom Hanks media doubt two What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes. Tom Hanks black-and-white brother hero
