Tom Hanks Trying Quotations

I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important.

Directing is a constant test of your communicative powers. You're constantly trying to explain people your vision of what you want and steer these tiny little details into a cohesive thing.

When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.

In the early days you have a tendency to intellectualize, but you're really just trying to sound smart and score with the chicks.

You don't necessarily go in to talk to the person to try to find some secret key to the lock.