The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece Quotes

“Sure, some movies don’t work. Some fail in their intent. But anyone who says they hated a movie is treating a voluntarily shared human experience like a bad Red-Eye out of LAX. The departure is delayed for hours, there’s turbulence that scares even the flight attendants, the guy across from you vomits, they can’t serve any food and the booze runs out, you’re seated next to twin babies with the colic, and you land too late for your meeting in the city. You can hate that. But hating a movie misses the damn point. Would you say you hated the seventh birthday party of your girlfriend’s niece or a ball game that went eleven innings and ended 1–0? You hate cake and extra baseball for your money? Hate should be saved for fascism and steamed broccoli that’s gone cold.”
― Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

“Years later, the memories of those weeks were still inside her bones, creating tactile feelings and revered emotions that buzzed like an electric current.”
― Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

“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.”
― Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

“curiosity fuels you and passion carries you along. Lose either one and you’re done.”
― Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

“All will be well. All will be well. All will be well. Wait for tomorrow. All will be well.”
― Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

“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.”
― Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

“Ride the river like a fallen leaf. What hooey.”
― Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

“To make a movie is to stumble around the laboratory and accidentally invent vulcanized rubber or Post-its.”
― Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

“I’m not saying you have to respect the man,” Bill Johnson said. “But you do have to respect the process.”
― Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

“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.”
― Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

“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.”
― Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

“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.”
― Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

“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.”
― Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

“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.”
― Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

“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.”
― Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

“What is she lacking? CERTAINTY. SIGNIFICANCE. SERENITY.”
― Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

“Movies last forever. So do characters in books.”
― Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

“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.”
― Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

“You said something I have always thought,” Bill said to me when I arrived on the set of Pocket Rockets, somewhere in the endless suburb that is greater Atlanta. “Sure, some movies don’t work. Some fail in their intent. But anyone who says they hated a movie is treating a voluntarily shared human experience like a bad Red-Eye out of LAX. The departure is delayed for hours, there’s turbulence that scares even the flight attendants, the guy across from you vomits, they can’t serve any food and the booze runs out, you’re seated next to twin babies with the colic, and you land too late for your meeting in the city. You can hate that. But hating a movie misses the damn point. Would you say you hated the seventh birthday party of your girlfriend’s niece or a ball game that went eleven innings and ended 1–0? You hate cake and extra baseball for your money? Hate should be saved for fascism and steamed broccoli that’s gone cold. The worst anyone—especially we who take Fountainfn1—should ever say about someone else’s movie is Well, it was not for me, but, actually, I found it quite good. Damn a film with faint praise, but never, ever say you hate a movie. Anyone who uses the h-word around me is done. Gone. Of course, I wrote and directed Albatross. I may be a bit sensitive.”
― Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

“curiosity fuels you and passion carries you along. Lose either one and you’re done. The moment you react by rote or settle for “good enough” is when you’re out of that line of work.”
― Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

“The movie may indeed have been saved by the change in the cast, as though a volatile, drunken brother-in-law had been disinvited to the family reunion.”
― Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

“I’m Laurel,” said a lady who was putting out a serving of tea and snacks. “Hi, Laurie. I’m Ike.” “Laurel. Heard a lot about you, lately.” Wren sat. “You’ve been the lead story here since Thursday. Is sage okay?” She meant the tea. “I’m good with sage.” Laurel asked if he wanted something else to drink, but Ike demurred. “Are you a vegetarian?” “I am not.” Ike looked to Wren, thinking he might need to explain himself. “I do eat many vegetables. Swiss chard. Bok choy. Corn—on the cob or creamed. Kale.” “Radishes?” Wren asked. “You eat radishes?” “I never turn down radishes.” “Yams?” Pause. Pause. “Don’t like yams,” Ike confessed. He wondered if Wren Lane was a vegetarian or a vegan or some combination. If so, what would she think of his dietary practices? Was he suddenly a disappointment to her? New lead story: My Costar Eats Flesh! Was the dinner going to be all natural, garden grown, raw? “Forgive me my distaste of sweet potatoes, too.” “Squash? Squashes in general?” “A zucchini cut thin and well fried. I’m game.” “Well, tonight it’s build your own burger. Laurel can make a beet patty if you don’t want beef. Or turkey, as requested by Al.” “Can’t see beets replacing beef.” “They don’t!” Wren was vehement about that. It was then, right then, that Ike Clipper felt his place on the surface of the planet solidify, sensing an easing to the torque of Earth’s axis.”
― Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

“Find a Life, not an Occupation”
― Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

“she’d become a serf of the gig economy by becoming a driver for PONY.”
― Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

“She said movies always started shooting on Wednesdays so that everyone had three days to prove themselves. The incompetents would be fired on Friday night and replaced by Monday. She said that no matter how much you spent on building a bridge, you never owned the river. That Jacques Cousteau helped invent scuba diving.”
― Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

“In the last year, he’d gone from Mommy to Mom, a crossing from baby into boyhood that rendered a tiny rip in Lulu’s heart.”
― Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

“They wanted each other with the bursting passion that spills from the hearts of the young when, separated by time and distance and a global upheaval, they are young no more.”
― Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

“Sure, some movies don’t work. Some fail in their intent. But anyone who says they hated a movie is treating a voluntarily shared human experience like a bad Red-Eye out of LAX.”
― Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

“You can't break the rules until you follow the rules.”
― Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

“Making movies is complicated, maddening, highly technical at times, ephemeral and gossamer at others, slow as molasses on a Wednesday but with a gun-to-the-head deadline on a Friday. Imagine a jet plane, the funds for which were held up by Congress, designed by poets, riveted together by musicians, supervised by executives fresh out of business school, to be piloted by wannabes with attention deficiencies. What are the chances that such an aeroplane is going to soar? There you have the making of a movie, at least as I saw it at the Skunk Works.”
― Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece