“McGlone and me. Entertainment Tonight ran this very cool Behind The Scenes piece on Doggy Bags. No joke - you’ll feel like you’re there. Watch here.”
I learned so much from Hanks and Spielberg and more importantly watching Hanks interact with Spielberg, about the things they would talk about regarding the scene.
“As a writer — you know, comedy is fun, and it might be harder, but it’s less satisfying. Writing comedy you can exaggerate situations, and even if you have a scene that’s not working, if it’s funny in the end, if you’ve got two funny lines in it, it works. In a way, you can be dishonest. But in this film, there’s no room for that. This had to be completely authentic. You had to buy every moment that these characters are going through, or you lose it. So…I don’t want to say it’s easier, but it’s much more satisfying than writing a comedy.” - Ed on No Looking Back (1998)
“You’re not gonna become a millionaire doing this, but that was never the point.”
On Saving Private Ryan: “Everyone else had cigarettes and they wanted to have different props, so I volunteered for cigar duty. The problem with the cigar is, you know, you do 20 takes of a scene, you’re smoking 20 cigars. By the end of the day, your mouth tastes like ass.” - Edward Burns
