Directing is a constant test of your communicative powers. You're constantly trying to explain people your vision of what you want and steer these tiny little details into a cohesive thing.
Tom HanksWe are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?
Tom HanksMost people want to be able to go off and deal with their day - stop in here, run errands there - and when you can't do that, going out becomes a chore.
Tom HanksMy TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house.
Tom Hanks