The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

by Tom Hanks

I don’t hate any films. Movies are too hard to make to warrant hatred, even when they are turkeys. If a movie is not great, I just wait it out in my seat. It will be over soon enough. Walking out of a movie is a sin.

COVID-19 had been dividing up our country into its Mask/No Mask politics and turned my job into online classes. Then came the Vaccine/Anti-Vax dialectic.

Movies last forever. So do characters in books. Blending the two in this volume may be a fool’s errand, wasted effort in the mining of fool’s gold. Don’t hate the final product. Think of it as quite good. Joe

Type anything. MAKING MOVIES IS MORE FUN THAN FUN.

Long ago, Bill vowed he would never again give any gift that was not pre-owned, as in used, and therefore environmentally altruistic.

“You can’t break the rules until you follow the rules.

What is her mental/spiritual state? Like everyone—CONFUSED. What is she lacking? CERTAINTY. SIGNIFICANCE. SERENITY. What is she seeking? What everyone seeks—LOVE. REST. SAFETY. What is she fleeing? What everyone flees—LONELINESS. RESPONSIBILITY! What is her most present need?—A GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEP.

no matter how much you spent on building a bridge, you never owned the river.

“Making movies is about solving more problems than you cause.” Allicia noted the hope-filled, upticked arch of Dace’s right eyebrow. Pow. “It’s not for pussies.” Dace nodded. “Very, very well put.”

They had fled poverty and violence and hardships born of hopelessness, so sleeping on mats for a few months was nothing. Being in America was everything.

“Every woman in the world is tired. Take away Eve’s abilities and you have every woman on the planet. She needs a nap a hell of a lot more than she needs a man.

Wren Lane was a beautiful woman, yes, but long ago, he had learned that beautiful women were a dime a dozen and paid a price for being so. Being beautiful put women in a lofty caste, worshipped no matter the setting yet begrudged for having their lives made easy by their beauty.

“I make movies because no other labor satisfies my quest to capture an unspoken truth, one so pure and undiscovered that the audience will slap themselves upside their heads for not having seen it long ago.

Shakespeare’s young lovers were kids who were in love with the idea of being in love. They took one look at each other and, foom, you had the classic story of star-crossed soul mates.

dozens worth but a dime,”

“I’m not saying you have to respect the man,” Bill Johnson said. “But you do have to respect the process. You

To make a movie is to stumble around the laboratory and accidentally invent vulcanized rubber or Post-its.

“Ride the river like a fallen leaf. What hooey.”

Can I ask you an honest question?” “Only if you can take the honest answer.”

God gives you some sweetness in life, the devil gives you a sugartooth.

“Living life is being on a ship at sea. Course corrections are constant.” “Like flying, often,” Wren said. “You should know, yeah. I start by writing down all the Certainties. The obvious stuff.” “Like being contractually required to finish this movie,” Wren said. “Yep,” Ike confirmed. “No matter how sad things are.”

All will be well. All will be well. All will be well. Wait for tomorrow. All will be well.

curiosity fuels you and passion carries you along. Lose either one and you’re done.

I think he is great at admitting what he doesn’t know, trusting that the picture will tell him what needs to be done, and that if he’s lucky he’ll get away with it. He’s a thief, and there is honor among thieves.