Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

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.

It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.

I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.

I would like to think I've reflected the audience's lives somehow, though it's in this big, false, glamorous arena of movies. I hope people see themselves somehow up on the screen.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.