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.

Tom Hanks

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We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

wake-up choices world

Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in... by Tom Hanks

Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.

next-day tides giving-up

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes... by Tom Hanks

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

honesty work inspirational

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being h... by Tom Hanks

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

honest motivational way

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.

together love romantic

I think it's better to feel good than to look good. by Tom Hanks

I think it's better to feel good than to look good.

feel-good life thinking

The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when y... by Tom Hanks

The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

cinema lonely loneliness

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown. by Tom Hanks

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding. by Tom Hanks

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.

findings ifs easy

Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of th... by Tom Hanks

Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.

theater color whole

Help publicly. Help privately. Help make sense where sense has gone missing. Help science to solve and faith to soothe. Help, and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.

motivation ignorance evil

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

optimism tolerance optimistic

Even the simplest choice can make a jaw-dropping difference in ou... by Tom Hanks

Even the simplest choice can make a jaw-dropping difference in our world.

our-world differences choices

A story has the opportunity to enlighten us, because as we connect the extraordinary moments on film with the ordinary moments of our lives, we ask ourselves, "What am I going to do the next time I'm scared? What would it be like to say goodbye to my family for the last time?"

extraordinary-moments opportunity goodbye

The reason most of us go to the movies is to be involved in someo... by Tom Hanks

The reason most of us go to the movies is to be involved in someone else's moral dilemma.

dilemma moral reason

Believing is seeing and seeing is believing. by Tom Hanks

Believing is seeing and seeing is believing.

seeing-is-believing seeing believe

In the 1998 Oscars, I found myself in the bathroom in a stall, next to Tom Selleck. So I leaned over and I said ‘looks like we’re a couple of peeing Toms.’ His angry silence is something I’ll never forget.

anger couple funny

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once... by Tom Hanks

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.

The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven... by Tom Hanks

The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.

desert morning heaven

I will entertain anything; it doesn't matter. You know, it's not obviously about the price, it's not about who, it's kind of about when and what. It's material, that's all.

host kind matter