I Have Great Appreciation For People Who

I Have Great Appreciation For People Who Do Anything Well. I Think That It's Very Difficult To Do What You Do Well.

I Was A Disinterested Student.

If You Read The Good Reviews You Gotta Read The Bad Reviews. I Kind Of Think Of It As Like Being A Quarterback: You Get Way Too Much Blame When It's Bad And Way Too Much Credit When It's Good.

I Don't Have The Tom Hanks Fans. When You Make The Kind Of Movies I Make, You Get Weird Letters From People.

Our Pavlovian Response To Movies Has Gotten To Its Lowest Point Ever. You Look At A Lot Of Movies That Are Successful And A Lot Of Movies That Studios Hold Up As Examples And You Go, 'my God, That Isn't Even A Story. It Isn't Even Two Acts. It's Eight Set Pieces Drawn Out With Slow Motion.' The Difficulty For Me Was That You Had To Hope That People Were Interested In This Kind Of A Story.