Welcome to the Summit Series with Ari Melbourne.

We have a very special guest for this interview today, a man who really needs no introduction,

but we will do one.

Tom Hanks, two-time Oscar winner, six-time Oscar nominee, 15-time Golden Globe nominee,

eight-time winner with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

He starred in over 80 films, actor, director, producer, and now novelist. His debut novel, the making of another

motion picture masterpiece is out now. Tom Hanks, thanks for being here. I feel like I'm a poster

boy for attention deficit. Way too much. And by the way, welcome. Thanks for coming to my rec room

here in my home. We have a lot up here for you. Had to move the ping pong table and the Game Boy out of the way. But this is where I really do like to come and just rest and ponder, you know, my place in the zeitgeist. Well, your place is firm in the zeitgeist. We'll get to that. I want to start with the book, which really reads well.

I don't want to say it's a surprisingly good read because that would...

Why not?

Well, that would only compare you to perception because you haven't written a full novel before.

So here's your first novel, which you have a lot of experience in fiction.

What made you want to go from bringing fiction to life on screen to writing it

yourself? Well, I don't think there's anything more fascinating than talking to somebody

asking them this question. How did you get here? What did you do? What brought you to do this

for a living? And do you still have the same passion for it now as you did when you you began the journey

that is an awful lot of the conversation that goes on the course of the long downtime of making

a film and it is the best i think that i think it's the best best most rewarding part of being a human

being on a film set you talk to an awful lot of people.

You hear their stories.

And it becomes something other than coworkers.

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