Tom Hanks
The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Tom Hanks is a celebrated actor and filmmaker known for his ability to connect deeply with audiences through his work. This interview reveals his leadership style as a visionary who values authenticity and seeks to inspire change through compelling narratives.
“That we were hired in order to change the sets over. And those of us who were paid made about $48 a week, those of us who were not paid, thank you very much, did it for the professional experience because it was professional actors and we were in rotating rep. And we were giving small parts.”
“I think I have a fondness for a limited technology that was closed ended. You know, a clock was meant to do only one thing, tell you the time. A camera did one thing. It took a photograph of you. Listen, I am as much as enmeshed in my iPhone as much as possible, but of late I removed every game from it.”
“So seeing these grown-ups talk about it in ways because they're no longer, they weren't old folks talking about it, they were young folks talking about it. I always had this sense of those years as being a predominantly weighted time for them in which fate was they had no control over their lives. They had to wait for him.”
“No, my parents, the joke is they pioneered the marriage dissolution laws for the state of California. It's my dad, Janet Amos, and Jaja Gabor all had a lot of divorces between them. But I can't, it's funny, I have three siblings. I'm the third kid of four, and we all have different takes on the environment that we grew up in.”
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