Word: doneness
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...President Carter coming out, and there was a big dramatic thing on TV: the Soviet Union has invaded Afghanistan--we were going to cancel the Olympics, and we weren't going to go to Moscow in 1980. I didn't realize what the covert action of the CIA had done, and whatnot...
HANKS I remember thinking that the Soviet Union had done something really stupid, but it was a sign of that classic Soviet aggression machine, the same way that they'd taken over Hungary in 1956 and gone into Czechoslovakia in 1968--that it was those robots that showed up on Lenin's Tomb every May Day. And I thought, They have made a mistake equal to anything wrong America has done. I remember thinking that it could turn into their Vietnam...
This is a movie that makes people think about America and what it has done, especially in the Middle East, and there have been quite a few of those recently, and audiences have not been that drawn to them. Will people go to this...
...your son is in show business, and Julia, your niece is. I wonder how you advise them about how it's done...
...aside the stuff that they've TiVoed, set aside the stuff that's coming in from Netflix, set aside anything that is going on, if you're not doing good enough work to make people think, Oh, there's this movie that I want to see, then you're done. We sleep for eight hours a day; we work for eight hours a day. You have about four hours to entertain yourselves. You have to do something that's going to be interesting enough for someone to say, I'm going to spend my four hours a day watching this...