I think the audience is really smart, and I don't think they have as much invested in the icons now as they did then, just because, by and large, everybody is much more skeptical, more jaded, much more hip. I think I'm pretty good at not doing something just because I'm bored with my quote-unquote image, or I want to try something new. The only thing I'm responding to in the piece is how the guy mirrors the human condition in a way that I understand his motivations. This was a risky movie to make, he said. It goes counter to the conventional storytelling narrative.
Long silences consume more than one-third of the film.
Asked if the potential peril makes moviemaking all the more thrilling, Hanks shook his head. I can live without the excitement. We're all out here because we still love making movies. It's not a crass enterprise for us. We're all incredibly invested in the saga of what we do.