He’s had a career spanning four decades in Hollywood, but Oscar winner Tom Hanks says he only has four films he deems worthy of being “pretty good”.
The Academy Award winner has almost 100 acting credits to his name from his first role in 1980’s “He Knows You’re Alone” through to Wes Anderson’s upcoming “Asteroid City”.
He’s also announced an upcoming novel titled “The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece” due out next May, which is a fictional story about the making of a big-budget superhero film and the comic book creation that inspired it.
Speaking with People about the book’s topic of the process of movie making, the 66-year-old Hanks says:
“No one knows how a movie is made – though everyone thinks they do. I’ve made a ton of movies (and four of them are pretty good, I think) and I’m still amazed at how films come together. From a flicker of an idea to the flickering image onscreen, the whole process is a miracle.
Movie-making is very hard work over a very long period of time that consists of so many moments of joy slapped up against an equal number of feelings of self-loathing. It is the greatest job in the world and the most confounding of labors that I know of.”
Hanks says one thing he feels good about is he’s never signed a contract that had a contractual obligation to a sequel, saying he tells studios that “if there’s a reason to do it, let’s do it. But you guys can’t force me.”
