The Cinema Has The Power To Make

I Try To Do What I Call The Three E's - Educate, Entertain, And Enlighten. If You Don't Entertain, No One Will Show Up. But You Also Have To Educate, Because People Want To Discover Specific Things About A World Unlike Their Own - Whether It's How Hard It Is To Go To The Moon Or How Scary It Is To Be On Omaha Beach.

What We're Doing With Band Of Brothers Is Trying To Put It Into Human Terms, So It Is Not Just A Flickering, Black And White Myth On A Screen, It Is A Resonant Story. I Want The Audience To Recognize Themselves In These Men. They're Not Just Mythic Heroes.

All The Kids Are Gone. It's The Greatest Thing That Has Ever Happened To Mr. And Mrs. Tom Hanks. I'll Tell You That Right Now. Second Greatest After Having The Kids In The First Place. When They Go, Holy Smoke, It's Like You're Dating Again. It's Fantastic. Also, We Were Doing An Awful Lot Of Work.

If You Have To Have A Job In This World, A High-priced Movie Star Is A Pretty Good Gig.

Human Beings Do Things For A Reason, Even If Sometimes It's The Wrong Reason.