My name's Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump. |
My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels / we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. |
President Kennedy: Congratulations. How do you feel?
Forrest Gump: I gotta pee. |
That film was a revelation for me. |
That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it. It's done. That's it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it. |
The idea is for people to control their own material from start to finish and get in front of audience that wants to see it. |
The Polar Express. |
The shading and the light and its starting to look crisp and clean it looks surreal and real, it had a really neat 3-D quality to it without that fuzzy eyeball stuff. |
The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too. |
There are whole floors of people in studios that worry about such things, as though there is power that can be wielded over such matters, |
There is a huge amount of stuff I'm simply not available for. If they want to make a movie in a certain amount of time and I just can't, I don't even want to see that stuff because if it's really great, I'd be bummed out. So actually I think I say no to a lot less stuff than I used to simply because I don't see it. |
There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movie. |
There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while. |
There's millions of survivors out there; make it one million and one. |
This is the future we dreamed of when I was a kid, ... the footprints in the lunar dust that will never, ever go away. |