If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.
Quote by Tom Hanks
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If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.
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Tom Hanks Quotes
- Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
- You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.
- The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.
- Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day.
- No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.
- And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.
- The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.
- The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.
- Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.
- The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.
Best Quotes
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can all of them make me laugh.
- I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
- Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.
- Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning.
- Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
- It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
- Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
- Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
- I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.
- Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.