Tom Hanks talks cinema, streaming services & working with Steven Spielberg vs Nora Ephron 

Listening to Tom Hanks made me think that if I could choose 10 close friends, that pushed me to think more about life, Tom Hanks would be one of the 10. I see him as both a profound thinker and humble.

Watching this, I am reminded of how bloody old I am. Seems like yesterday I was watching 'Turner and Hootch', 'Big', 'Sleepless in Seattle', 'Bachelor Party etc

Tom Hanks is my favorite actor, and Forrest Gump is my favorite film. That’s the one film I can watch over and over and never get bored of

I really liked his comparison of movie theater experience v streaming experience. The art will survive, the business model will change. 😎

Tom is unbelievably charismatic and I imagine his actors love working with him and for him.

Tom Hanks spark his fame since I was a kid in the 80s. the man is a genius that can play comical and turn serious.

This is the best entertainment I have seen for some time ! Real quality !and Tom Hanks is excellent !

Beloved Tom is insanely talkative, like Forrest Gump starting to talk at the Bus Stop, he automatically narrates everything to you,.

I'm going on 68 and I have NEVER seen Friends. Not a second of it. Same with Cosby, 2nd show.

Fantastic guest. I love how he answers questions so humorful and intricately.

the interviewer did a really good job and asked Tom some really engaging questions

My interpretation of refusing to say a line even when you knew it was in the script is people can sometimes change their definition of a character as they progress through the piece, but if you know the line was in the script and you can hold space for both your developing interpretation and the interpretations that caused the lines to be written you not only have a broader interpretation of the character but a broader ability to merge interpretations with understanding, communication and expression. Even if someone was right when they thought they really knew better than the director or the writer due to how their interpretation of the piece is developing if they wanted people to agree they would have to communicate the reasoning which would be best done well before it gets in the way, not in the exact moment it would cause a problem

The main issue with going to the cinema for me, is people munching on food or slurping drinks, or checking their phone, very annoying, I don't pay good money to listen or see that crap. So I wait for the Blu-ray or streaming service to watch. I'm lucky that I have a projector which means I don't miss out on screen size, also I can pause anytime for a bathroom break.

The second film he references at the start is actually titled The Bad and the Beautiful actually, from 1952. But I digress, always good to hear Hanks speak

Thank you Tom Hanks! This was a wonderful insight into acting! And the movie business!

Can't believe I first saw this dude on Happy Days. He just got better and better until the movies he was in got better and better.

A fan sharing his feelings with the actor was brilliantly captured in the first episode of 'Only Murders in the Building.' I don't think you can get any closer to that odd feeling, and it's funny that this story was worked into the show. It must have been weird to play it

Also, is his hearing fading or was it the quality of sound in the room for him to not be able to hear?

The host should have asked Tom if film makers really want to make “really good shit” and know they need to produce great content why do large studios like Disney or Lucasfilm keep making films and shows the audience largely reject and consider bad content.

One of the all-time greats!

Love Tom talking long form. Only way you get to know an individual. That’s why I watch the Union.

His interviews are always amusing.

Tom Hanks has so many great movies, Sully was such a moving movie.

Its funny he mentions the pentagon and the three dart finish but doesn’t put the Script together

REAL MAN 😃 LOVE HIS MOVIE

I disagree with Hanks completely when he mentions the guy who says "They don't make great movies anymore. There are no Godfathers etc." and Hanks disagrees and says that there are. No, there aren't. To me, the greatest decades for film in my life have been the 70's and the 90's. The Oscar winner for best picture during the first four years of the 70's were 'Patton', 'The French Connection', 'The Godfather' and 'The Sting'. The first four years of the 90s gave us best picture Oscar winners 'Dances with Wolves', 'The Silence of the Lambs', 'Unforgiven' and 'Schindler's List'. Do you know what the last four years of the 2020's have given us for best picture? 'Nomadland', 'Coda' (GAG...an updated version of the ABC Afterschool Special series from the 70's), 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' and 'Oppenheimer'. Only 'Oppenheimer' can rival the 70's and 90's best picture Oscar winners. So, the motion picture Academy bestows its praises on films every year peer to peer. It's a credible process because people like Hanks and thousands of others in the industry are Academy voting members. If anyone thinks the films so far in the 2020's that have won best picture are as good as the ones from the 70's and 90's, historians would like to tell you that what is being made today is more CONTENT than it is CINEMATIC BRILLAINCE.

“Sown the seeds of your own destruction,” hilarious.

Didn’t streaming services restrict their movies away from screens? Greyhound as an example. A great movie but very difficult to access unless you were willing to join the Apple stream.

Do what you need to do and be kind to the ones who can't help themselves❤❤🎉🎉

THIS guy, Tom Hanks just comes across as an actor/person….a straight honest shooter AND he should have got the Oscar as Captain. Ryan….👏👏👏🍺🍺🍺

Genius

Did anyone ask him about Isaac Kappy?

How did Tom get into the business?

So much like my brother!

Yes that is really interesting

TURNER & HOOCH ❤❤!!

what boot/shoe brand is Hanks wearing?

I think Mr Hanks was mistaken. There are very few really good original films made, in modern times, not as many as in the past. The economics used to be that films were a cheap source of entertainment, in terms of public access to them. With a theater seat costing upwards of $20, the majority of the population, who used to be middle class, who are now working poor, no longer can afford a night out like that, a few times a month. Plain old TV, be it broadcast, cable, or satellite and possibly streaming services are what most can afford. This means that spending the cost of a meal on a single motion picture experience means it it had better be worth it, to generate enthusiasm to continue repeating that expense. This puts pressure on industry investors to churn out remakes of earlier successful films, instead of chancing innovation of new stories, because of the risk of a loss. AI has the potential of destroying the film industry, as we have known it. People can soon be able to create their own films at home, or even have AI do it for them. So a motion picture experience is under even more pressure to deliver. No, the industry is going to have to find ways of becoming a more personal experience across the board. To me, this might mean opening up the guilds for regular personal interaction with the public at dinners, and auditoriums. Aside from rubbing elbows with the famous, hearing old stories, learning techniques we might apply to our own amateur efforts as hobbies, this is a possible future area of new growth for the industry at large, including actors, set design, lighting design, cinematography, sound, carpentry, costumers, literally every single group that contributed to the process can develop this engagement with fans and enthusiasts. We, as a civilization must learn to become community, again, in new ways. This will keep the industry alive, if it goes into the business of organizing these events.

No talk about his time on Epstien's Island?

The trouble with the movie theatres comes down to money. Young people have none, so they’d rather wait till it streams. So it really is upto the older gen to keep the movies relevant

I wish, during his lesson, that he'd have told the audience to USE THEIR HANDS when saying the line.

Don’t believe in the story theory, it’s about the whole package 📦 the story and the way how it’s told. And cinema is a way how to tell it

I enjoyed that, and being in exhibition I found his opinions on cinema v streaming particularly interesting, but the interviewer was terrible.

бег за лошадью, в каком нибудь старом вестерне, это комедийный пик всех фильмов, которые смотрят в выходной

You put a machine asking those questions and it will have more soul than these students. Please, spice it up! be human.

Forest Gump and Band of Brothers

Who is the interviewer?

Mr Tom Hansk, during the fantastic movie about "Inferno" as all the rest of those books become very correct movies. Never before but directley when presentate the first to the so far last movie has your Mr Hanks ear has got an line that has by me observed by rader young as rader healthy people presentate heart arrowhead as problems and even heart stroke or heart attacks. I am sorry to desturbe but is that so.

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I saw Napoleon at a Cinema, one of 100 movies worth watching at a Cinema. , Major Movies will ALWAYS be worth watching . Harry Potter, Ltd of the Rings, Saving Private Ryan... BIG MOVIE Blockbusters and other good movies, the problem Tom is most movies are meh ! Even Oppenheimer was on Netflix streaming , Killing the Cinemas.

Tom your a diamond geezer, with so many facets in the rolls you've chosen. Good show.

Come a long way from Splash

did they just hired an intern as the host?

Impressed with his weight loss.

The host or presenter needs a LOT more practice, as I felt she was abysmal and super flat with low, dull energy (sadly), but Mr. Hanks opened my eyes to a great deal of the business or process of film-making. Hear, Hear! I see now why he’s at the very top of his game. So impressed with the message (even when he was clearly under the weather)! 😢 I wish him a speedy recovery…

Madam, please put the microphone closer to your voice hole. Thank you.

Ok tom took tak tik too haha❤❤🎉🎉

Why is chet hanks the way he is?

Shame she can't talk very well, we don't seem to care about diction and how we present ourselves anymore. Tom must be desperate to mimic her. 🙁

Да , он любого человека может отсканировать хоть американца , или из другой страны и повторить на камеру

Somehow it are aways the 'stars', not the normal people, that make the movie. Over valued, over paid, just doing a job.

Tom and your ilk, you could have some so much good for society and people-you missed it.

Tom, visit me in RED BLUFF. We'll take care of that allergy or upper respiratory ailment! Unless of course, this be the most perfectly dramatized common human affliction ever. Pray tell?

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sorry, but that girl is out of this movie. she come out with some written questions, do not bother what he's answer (meaning how good/stupid the question is), just happy to be able to read the next question. such a lousy job .... sorry Oxford if you have to choose her just because is a she and not white....

I love Mr. Hanks, but to tell people no one gets to be in a movie because of who they know is just flat disingenuous. It's actually the norm, not the exception. Completely blown away that he said that. And, yes, even TERRIBLE actors.

Loved the interview, and agreed with most of what he said, BUT!, I disagree about good movies like the Godfather are still being made. Movies suck now, thats the real reason streaming services have such a high rate of abandonment that he spoke of.

I've never heard anybody speak for so long and say absolutely nothing. This guy should go back to wearing a dress because that was the only thing that made him what he is today

That privileged child didn't like the answer Tom gave about who you know.

Epstien island regular

Mr Hanks appears to be unwell

drink some water dude.

Tom shouts a bit too much :). His assertion that who you know has nothing to do with it may hold in some circumstances but it doesn't hurt! :)

Nothing good absolutely nothing good has come out of Hollywood, nothing.

Movies the last 25years have sucked.

When is he going to talk about pedophilia?

COVID in Tom’s voice 😷👀?

Sounds like a primary-school pupil interviewing the school janitor: 'I think that's really interesting, I think that's some really interesting point [sic.] about how much you can plan for when you make a film, and how many other variables are' (6:37)... 'Thank you, that's really interesting' (13:24). This is a top student at one of the top universities in the world, who represents not only her university but also the world famous debating society she's the president of.

What is this ⚠️⚠️⚠️❓️❓️❓️the world is on fire 🔥...⚠️⚠️⚠️❓️❓️❓️

We all become ugly when we get old..

Arrest Tom Hanks #isaackappy

God he looks awful.

Come on, Tom... we know who you're talking about when you mention "Those people" you even said "Their skin color" I never saw your racist side until this, Tom. I'll never see any of your movies again.

It’s literally being at the right place at the right time, having the right connections, being born or living in California, and a lot of serendipitous good luck and no one will admit that too be so true and mercury being in 💯 retrograde helps too!!! 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯🧦💯👋🌻✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅

Why do we never see him with a wife 😮

Can we not wait til this guy is dead to acknowledge how much joy and happiness he has brought to all of our lives along the years. Thanks Tom Hanks for all the laughs, tears and all the range of emotions you have made us feel! You sir are a national treasure! I want to thanks him from the bottom of my heart! I don’t have any social media so I can’t post it straight to his account so if someone can copy and paste to his Facebook or whatever other social media he uses I would be very grateful! Thanks again!

Tom Hanks deserved a better interviewer. She had no idea how to challenge him or know anything about his enormous body of work.

I had a nice time watching this Interview :)

Tom Hanks was great in Punchline (1988)

First This man loves typewriters and he probably types his work up….. did she know that about Tom Hanks???

Whoever photographed and edited the thumbnail hates Tom Hanks.

What is it about Hanks (of all people!) that attracts all these weirdos in all the comments section? What started it?

the film director is the viewer of the film, that the film makes it, and the actor has to follow, for the story to see or watch the film !! Great interview !! thanks

I worked in camera for almost 25 yrs in the film industry, and now I can hardly watch any movie in it's entirity. Most of it is so formulaic and predictable my head drifts almost immediately. And, or I just don't care about the characters being portrayed.

Thanks for sharing this.

This is Exactly True You Might Get a Break Yet There is No Training Period You Ether Know You’re Craft or You Don’t There is Just Too Much Money involved in Movie 🎥 Making and No Matter Who You Know That Is Not Good Enough The Motion Picture and Television Industry Want You If You Are in Production and You Are Good At What You Do They Want You If You Are In Construction If You Are Good They Want You Yet You Will Be Found Out In Less Than 1/2 a Hour If You are Not Good At What Ever You Do or Claim You Do This Business Will Bounce You….!

Fabulous interview - thanks to all involved. But I do not think anyone there has a clue what AI will bring in a few years, so to think the movie experience of old will prevail I very much doubt. Imagine a future where you get to create a plot and define the environment as a movie director yourself. And it only takes 10 minutes of chatting to a movie-bot and you’re ready to start watching. There would be no paid actors or directors or producers required. You’d sit and watch something you created from your own mind and which was able to be monetised if the product was great, now that’s the future of AI movies - personally I can’t wait…

Ive always liked Tom Hanks - he is all class

So interesting to listen to. No wonder he is at the top of his profession.

Damn he is such a great fantastic interview. He loves the audience and likes to engage with them