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  1. “Well, it's a good job, man. Good work if you can get it. If they keep asking, well, it's kind of like, you know, if I can just transfer to the American League and be a DH, I think I can get a couple more seasons out of it.”

    2017-12-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 197 - Tom Hanks · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “When I was young, I mean, there's always the big movie stars that are going on, you're just admiring just because they're able to do it and do it so cohesively. Then if you, when I was young, Robert Duvall was a huge influence on me because I had no knowledge of who he is. He was a great magnificent mystery to it. And if you're looking at the people who do it today without giving up a lot of the reality of who they are, there's so many women right now that are fantastic. I'm having a cranial plate shift like Bree Larson. And as far as guys go, I think one of the worst things that has happened to the future of cinema history is Daniel Day Lewis deciding to he's had enough because that That man achieves something in his full immersion into it that it's a shame that he's not going to be able to do it some more.”

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  3. “degree for the sake of dramatic purposes, the order of events, well, then you can live up to, I think, the truth of is if you're making a movie about something that really happened for good or for bad, it becomes a document. It becomes a version of events that people will turn to as being an authoritative source of at this moment of history. And you can't play fast and loose with that reality. You actually have to adhere as close as you can to the facts.”

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  4. “It is a pressure, but we set out in order to obey a couple of rules. Like I played Richard Phillips, who was kidnapped by Somali pirates. Captain Phillips. Yes, and Sully Sullenberger, and Charlie Wilson, the congressman when he was alive. And then you have a meeting with him, and you have to say to them, look, in this movie, I'm going to say things you never said and do things you never did. And I'm going to be places you never were. Despite those handicaps, I wanted to be as realistic as possible. So walk me through the decision-making process or walk me through some of the other unseen pressures that we might not be able to put into the movie, but I will be able to carry around with me in my pocket. And if you're aiming out in order to not alter the motivations of anybody or to a ridiculous...”

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  5. “I read everything that is possible to read. I see everything that might exist on videotape. And then I do an awful lot of other research about the error and the specifics. For example, in Bridge of Spy, here's a lady looking over the Berlin Wall that was first put up at her relatives. One of the things I read, Donovan wrote quite a bit. He wrote about the six days that he spent in Berlin on this negotiation. And he was hampered by a severe cold, horrible cold, which we put into the movie. It wasn't in the script in the room. And he also, when he was held by the border police, he had to look at a bunch of folders in various languages, flyers in various languages, that talked about the socialist paradise for the workers that was East Germany. So we put one of those into the movie as well.”

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  6. “Oh no, no. And he never does that. I'm going to send you this thing that I'm excited about. And then I read it and I say, well, this is kind of exciting. What do you think? And then there's all sorts of changes that are going to go into it. It's always bigger than the first thing that you read and how you're going to imagine it.”

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  7. “So he loved to go. He was an insurance player. But what he loved was when both sides felt as though they got exactly what they wanted. That was he was the king of. And that's how he actually sprung those guys loose. He got to the point where he made sure that everybody won something as opposed to a zero-sum game in which you lose Ireland.”

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  8. “The lawyer I played who negotiated the release of a couple of people, Francis Gary Powers. And there was actually another one as well. He loved the concept of a negotiation in which everybody wins.”

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  9. “Only when they're mysterious and create something brand new and when there is a dynamic to the character that I think speaks greater than the nostalgia for the period. The thing about Donovan was he was the”

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  10. “And you could have, you know, look at this old microphone sort of hold the headphones. This is quite original. No, this was a big deal. I didn't even know this stuff was in here. I'm discovering it right now. Shall we put this on and see what it says? Maybe we should.”

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  11. “Not just any television set. This is a communist television set. This was on the set of Bridge of Spies. It doesn't necessarily work. But if you were in, there was a time in East Germany where East Germany's active economy was actually better than Great Britain's in the 1950s because they were so bolstered by the Soviet Union. And they had a burgeoning consumer electronics consumer appliance. Manufacturing base, and so an awful lot of East Germans had really good TVs, and this was one of them. Never make a movie with Steven Spielberg and said, hey man, this is a good kind of this TV. That looks like it's a lot of fun. Next thing you know, it's being delivered to you at the house. So, this was, you know, you could make your own records on”

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  12. “I would probably play him as a very incurious man. And I do it in interpretation more so, that incurious and an unimaginative guy who doesn't see much beyond the next 48 hours. Here, let's come this way because they're asking for delivery of things. Great. Huh? Oh, hey guys, come on in. Enjoy your lunch. Can you get a shot of this? Do you know what this is?”

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  13. “Is that going to be the future? I think it's looking at the long haul. I think you've got to look at some other facilities, other realities of what the consequences of it all in. If good stuff happens, then perhaps yes. As we were talking about, whatever that shift was, is that it did break an awful lot of the assumed constructions that we had put around about going into public service. I think that there are a bunch of really smart guys who are men and women who have never been in politics that would make great politicians that could get into the hierarchy and establish questions of policy and philosophy.”

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  14. “Here, here, I'll give you one right now. Because you see, I have, I'm serious. Take this typewriter. I have too many that I need to get rid of.”

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  15. “I was talking to a reporter on a podcast and we were talking about this very thing and she said her 14 year old son went to spend the night at somebody's house because they were going to watch an old movie and he came home early and she says what happened I thought you were going to watch a movie I said we did but everybody was on their phone So here's six teenagers who aren't even involved in the communal experience of watching a movie together because they're busy. Now listen, is it a bad thing or is it a good thing? I have no idea, but it is altering the way they are. I think it's both.”

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  16. “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. I've taken off every news update service of it. I've gotten rid of all sorts of stuff that sends me information that I just check as opposed to read. Yeah. And it's actually made my life a little bit more cohesive. I choose when I'm going to become involved and informed as opposed to being part of some algorithm that says, hey, we got your information, so we're going to send you this.”

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  17. “This is meant. Even though it's portable, this is meant to sit on your desk for the next 40 years and you can do anything from, is it piece of paper around? Find something, anything. There's one. Here we go. This first of all, this machine tells the truth and it also tells lies. It can change the world for the good or the better. Listen to that. See that? See that? Hear that report. Now the only thing you can do on this is record your thoughts. That's the only thing that it's good for. It's the only thing that it's meant for. But if you're going to say, I love you to somebody, it's as permanent as though was going to be carved in stone. It's because you're actually stamping the ink into the fibers of the paper. You're not applying it.”

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  18. “They held me in thrall. Because they are actually beautiful objects of engineering and art and design. That are meant to do one thing and one thing only is For as long as they exist on the planet Earth, we'll just pick anyone out. Here is a, okay, this is a royal. Look at it. This was probably made sometime in the 1950s. Just pick it up. Just pick that up. Now that's heft. Yeah, it is”

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  19. “Yeah, and that actually is how I got my first decent typewriter. I had a piece of junk typewriter that 1970s plastic, and I took it in to get it service to the local typewriter business machine. And the guy wouldn't touch it. He said, this is a toy. And I walked out of there with a Hermes 2000 typewriter that was a true machine. But he yelled at me. He said, this is a toy. I'm sorry. Well, he sold it to me for $50 plus a $5 refund for my piece of junk typewriter. That he said, I'm just going to throw it away.”

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  20. “Yeah. One day she just said anonymously, what's one of the best type grades you've ever seen? The Quiet Rider's a great type, right? Next thing I know, she painted all this.”

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  21. “Well, I'll take it next. My goodness. This is the Remington Quiet Rider, which is one of the greatest typewriters in the world. And she paints, and this was what...”

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  22. “One, don't screw it up, but at the same time, you must stretch it somehow. Because otherwise, all you are. You need to provide some other brand of nourishment and healthiness. And so if those kind of very flattering polls, or people say they say, what better thing could you hear about yourself other than, hey, I trust you? That's about the highest praise you could get from anybody. And I've got to tell you, there's times I've lied through my teeth, sometimes in promoting movies that even I knew weren't any good, but you can still get into that an understanding of sometimes you take a shot, sometimes you don't. But countenance matching up with the quality of the choices you make, that's, man, outside of longevity, that's the only standard you can hold yourself to.”

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  23. “Right, guys, give me a big huzzah. So, you must be doing they're not allowed to. I don't discount that. That says something that I, this is the way I take it, is that my countenance, if I should be so bold, matches my choices. I think that when you get to this point where you realize you're a bit of a commodity and I realize I am, you know, from a business perspective and the people who want me to do business with them, I understand I'm bringing into it the sum of everything I've ever done, everything I've ever said, any reaction, any audience has ever had.”

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  24. “No, no, I'm a leading question. I'm just saying the stage. Well, right, it ends up being of what are you saying and what is actually the authentic message that you're trying. What is the authentic change you're trying to bring? What is the enlightenment that you're trying for what I do? What are we actually trying to tell any audience that comes in and watches a movie? You want them to feel as though they got their money's worth, that's just business. That's a corporate side of it. But the artistic side of it is you want them to feel as though they were a part of something much larger than themselves and have a slightly new perspective on life as we know it. Whether they're seeing a movie that takes place in the 1700s or you're seeing a movie that took place in 1971.”

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  25. “Right. And how true is your average photo op in politics in which bales of hay have been realistically arranged in front of a barn on a riser with TV lights on it and a collection of citizens or put in the back and they're all in different dress and they all have that and someone comes on and talks about their intense desire to help the American family.”

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  26. “Human behavior, how we think, how we act, and the great paradoxes that are in all of our decisions. That is what I seek out and whatever it is I decide to go on and do. Even if you're searching for the DaVinci Code or trying to determine who's an angel and who”

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  27. “They're just kind of like treates on something and there's nothing new, there's nothing unique. And I find them kind of a lot of times they're void of the gray areas of human behavior. There's always oftentimes there's a specific bad guy and there's a specific good guy. And a lot of times there are no good guys or bad guys. There are just people who are poorly motivated or wrong. The things I look for is I was very lucky because when I went to Cleveland for the first year, I held a torch or maybe it was a spear during the entire scene of Hamlet's advice to the players. So every night I heard speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it, trippingly over the tongue. And inside that, he says, your job is to hold the mirror up to nature. It means you have to reflect back true.”

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  28. “No, there's an awful lot of like preaching to the choir. There's an awful lot of stories that people want to tell, and there's no surprise in it. And they're kind of like polemics, if I'm using the word polemic.”

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  29. “That no one had ever touched before. The best years of our lives was about the emptiness that an entire generation faced when they came back from the war and how in the world do they get on with that? You can go the grapes of wrath. I mean, even though the ending was absolutely nothing like John Steinbeck wrote, it ended up being entering into the national consciousness and changing that consciousness because you could not argue with the theme that was it was examining. Hollywood will do that all the time. It won't always land on it. It won't always make it happen. It might cop out periodically, but there's always going to be something coming down the pike that is meant to do it. The difference now is it might be on a streaming service as opposed to playing in your local cinema because the superheroes are filling up all the cinemas.”

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  30. “I think it did, both in what it accomplished and what it failed to accomplish. The big, the throwing deep in the end zone on Philadelphia was that it was going to compete in the open marketplace. You can make a small movie for $400,000 and you could play in every film festival in the world and only 62,000 people will see it. It will be a profoundly good movie to them. But when you're going out and you're going to compete in your local marketplace for a broad audience to come in and deal with something that's kind of ripped right out of today's headlines, you have to do it in a manner that it's going to be somehow so approachable, authentic, and glamorous in order to attract an audience who simply wants to be entertained if they become enlightened at the same time. Good for you. which I have said, a gentleman's agreement with Gregory Peck in 1952 was about anti-Semitism.”

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  31. “Oh no, I think there's going to be quite a bit that's going to come out about it. Is that going to be salacious? Titillating, shocking, outrageous in order to draw viewers? Or is it going to be human and realistic and authentic in its details in order to say what happened? In some ways, you can already see the, I'm sure there's already stories in development that are going to be based on the Harvey Weinstein or whatever. And is that going to be as... What's the word I'm looking for? Is that going to be as pure an examination of the theme as somebody else taking along and saying, well, let's fictionalize it and turn it into something so that we're not necessarily dealing with the specifics of any one person, but can get down to the specifics of what it really did to the human beings itself.”

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  32. “I'm surprised by the overtness of it. Yeah, sure. Yes, absolutely. Am I surprised at some of the personalities involved? Not Harvey. You know, he had a way of doing business and a zero-sum game negotiation stuff that would not make you surprised to have him be one of those kind of guys that does that in the workplace. Others are just like, well, there's a time and place for decorum in ethics and you blew it. There's that as well.”

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  33. “This goes much far beyond that because it ends up being a swaying of influence and it becomes part of the marketplace. It becomes when it is inherent into the workforce that you join that you have to succumb to a degree of sexual harassment in order to keep your job. When that happens, the only thing you can say is, number one, I hope the victims come out and tell all sorts of stories, everything, tell the truth about what goes on, and that the repercussions land exactly as they should.”

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  34. “It's everywhere. But, you know, part of it also is goes like, look, in a lot of ways, all of us, we all left town and joined the circus. And the circus is glamorous in a lot of ways. And there is camaraderie and there is sex and there is attraction and there's boyfriends and girlfriends and there's flirting. And that's always been part of there's onset affairs. There's no law against that.”

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  35. “Some people do it for power. They just want to have a degree of power because that's the thing that gives them credence. It's something on one hand it's a parking space with your name on it and you take it to another extreme. It's the ability to beat up on underlings and say things like, so you want a job, you want to keep your job, well, then you're going to have to fulfill these other demands I have out of you that are that are of a sexual nature. That is pure. To the degree of assault. There are people like that without a doubt in Hollywood. I don't think it is as It's not common core, but without a doubt, it's widespread because human nature comes down to a lot of times those people in power have it for that ability, that access in order to be a sexual predator.”

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  36. “New Yorker. I think there's a number of reasons people go into this line of work that I'm in, essentially trying to come up with stories that people will pay to see. One is because it's just ridiculous amounts of fun. Two is if you can make it stick, it can be a pretty good living, you know, and you get to travel the world and see interesting things.”

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  37. “Well, that's a good question. I mean, anybody who had very specific knowledge of what was going on, they'll have to answer questions about how complicit were they.”

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  38. “If crimes have been committed, yeah, I get it. We don't have to, it's a marathon. There's a longer faith that we can have. And everything goes in spurts, you know, stops and starts. Sometimes you take one step forward, two steps back, but other times you take one step back and two steps forward. And that means you just keep moving forward a little bit.”

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  39. “Born a presidential race, but the real important. So if there is a turnout that says we're not satisfied with this, hey, baby, that's even better than going through the machinations of...”

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  40. “I say we have something better in store than that. We have an election coming up in less than a year now. 2018 is going to send a message That is going to reverberate much more than any Senate hearings or congressional stuff that's going to go by. That election in 2018 is going to prove one of two things. We will continue along and we will have the government we deserve, or a lot of people are going to show up and be motivated to vote in order to send out the waves of saying, we are not satisfied with the way things are going right now. And the great, you go to any other nation in the world and you find out that in the United States how much of our electorate turns out to vote in any given year? 40%”

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  41. “Literally the physical spot. John Adams was sworn in as the second president of the United States. And for the first time in recorded human history, Rule of a nation changed hands without to a non relative without bloodshed or death. And my head exploded because I hadn't put it together that way. The great thing about our democracy is not It's taking people out of power It's removing them. Egypt. Egypt was a country that had not a voice in who ran it any more than they could stop the sun from rising. Well, they put in one group and what they couldn't figure out is how to take the second step was to remove the people that you wanted to take out of office because they had in a revolution. It was bad. But in America, we've done it again and again and again and again.”

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  42. “In Philadelphia, and so I'm walking around trying to get skinny because we're playing somebody who's suffering from the great pandemic of our age. We visited the family, we visited Independence Hall. Which is a great place to be. There you go. The Liberty Bell, there it is, and you got the Supreme Court was in this room and the House of Representatives were in this room and the Senate was up in this room. The park ranger, the guy in literally the green uniform, the smoky bear hat, we're in the Senate chambers. We were the only ones there. It was cold day, weekday. And he said, and on that spot there,”

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  43. “And yeah, and what came out, what came out of it, six years of strife, more people were killed and more property was destroyed in the Civil War than all the other American involvements. That ends up being history. In all of the history that I've read and all of the various, I don't know, all the various things that I have tried to turn into nonfiction entertainment, you do come back to this other thing, which is the power of our immediate foundation. Some of this began because when I was doing Philadelphia,”

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  44. “Yes, yes. What he puts forward is in regard to the question of slavery, for 15 years, 20 years, for most of the up until 1860. The issue had become so pervasively divided that you were not allowed to speak to, if you were pro-slavery, you could not speak to the abolitionists. And if you were abolitionists, you couldn't have anything to do. Compromise was evil. Compromise, any sort of like voting process, any sort of discussion. Not that there was an awful lot of compromise you could have by keeping an entire race of people in bondage in order to make them work in the fields. But there had been an uncompromising quality in which all the political society had become binary. If you were a zero, there was no way you were a one. And if you were one, there was no way.”

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  45. “Yeah, yeah, and what could come out of that? Well, what good had come out of that is that on whatever other side of the political divide, you'll start hearing people speak their minds. And unfortunately, it seems as though the only people who have done that so far are folks who no longer running for office, you know, who aren't part of the, who aren't part of that political combine that is a business in and of itself. Show business for ugly people.”

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  46. “It does. I think so because at the end of the day, it's dog piling, it's a degree of cheap shots. I will say, I think we have to admit this, though. Something profound came out of that election, and that is the rules were smashed. The rules no longer applied. A candidate could say outrageous things and not be penalized by it when it came down to the voting booth. You can look at it as though some aspect of it there was a national referendum that had had enough of this ongoing political continuum that was always say the right things, always feed your base. Always say just glittering generalities about whoever anybody because you don't want to offend. And that is translated, I think, to you don't want to tell the truth about what your opinions are. Here's a guy that you can't stop telling his cocktail name.”

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  47. “Think there's an us versus them kind of thing. I think a lot of times there's preaching to the choir that can come out of the Hollywood machinery. I think a lot of times stories are incredibly easy in order to show how good guys always win. But I think it's also part of the transit and a bit of the divide”

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  48. “Well, when we were back in the golden months of last October, you know, before the election, people stick microphones in your face. Do you think Donald Trump's going to get elected? And I said, one of the kids says, no way. You don't elect a guy like that president of the United States. And I thought that all the way up. And I said something glib or flip. If that's going to happen, well, you know what? Then aliens are going to land on my front lawn and dinosaurs are going to wear capes. It was a silly answer for something that was impossible. Well, if I had said instead, if that happens, neo-Nazis are going to hold torchlight parades in Charlottesville, and Pocahontas jokes will be said in front of the Navajo Code Talkers. That would have been just as hellacious an imagination, I think, as what we have.”

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  49. “There is that, there is that. But what is happening is something that is more subtle and more insidious and I think has more fingerprints from other governments in the past who have said, look, we can't shut them down because that will cause outrage, but we can denigrate them. We can call them names. We can tell people that those are not the facts. That's what he's saying.”

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  50. “Of some records that exist somewhere, trying to determine what was said about Vietnam in 1956 and 1947 and 1963, well, then you're monkeying around with, I think, what the United States of America has been based upon, which is the great freedom to say what you want, assemble with who you want to, and read and be informed by those people that you want to turn to. Now, because we're not, you know, I think what the current administration is doing I don't know that they're saying we have to shut them down so they don't publish anymore.”

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