Tom Hanks

It’s not a mid-life crisis. It’s a mid-life disaster. A mid-life crisis is when you wake up with everything and you go ‘I have everything but I’m still unhappy.’

Tom Hanks

Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world’s population.

Tom Hanks

Let’s not pretend there isn’t a huge industry driven by the choices made by editors and writers who decide what a story is.

Tom Hanks

Most people want to be able to go off and deal with their day – stop in here, run errands there – and when you can’t do that, going out becomes a chore.

Tom Hanks

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Tom Hanks

My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It’s just not December without that movie in my house.

Tom Hanks

My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.

Tom Hanks

My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important.

Tom Hanks

My wife and I, we met making a movie. This is not just our job, it’s our life. It’s what we do naturally whether we’re working together or not.

Tom Hanks

Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I’m not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk.

Tom Hanks