Hanks addressed Moore and a whole lot more during his stirring, humorous 10-minute speech.
You guys are gonna lose a fortune on this!
Were going to be standing out front, just picking strangers off of Fifth Avenue.
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One, two, three, four, youre all gonna see MoMA for nothin today.
We are one week into a different era for the world and for our nation.
Thats who all of us are.
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Movies capture everything about us, in one way or another.
The rise of artists like Melvin Van Peebles and Sidney Poitier goes on and on.
We see ourselves up on the screen.
Sometimes were Barbara Stanwyck in an old Preston Sturges film.
Theyre not all hits, believe me.
Im stunned and delighted thatThe Ladykillersis here at the Museum of Natural History.
Oh, Im so sorry, I meant MoMA Ill get the initials right.
I heard a collective Huh?
when that title was mentioned.
Why do you not ever, say, make a film for the Coen Brothers?
So I said, I made a film for the Coen Brothers.
It was a remake of Alec GuinnessThe Ladykillers.
I made a film with the Coen Brothers.
They came to me.
The Coen Brothers themselves asked me to be in their film.
I made a film with the Coen Brothers.
People who make movies are craftsmen.
Theres no way to fake it.
Theres no way to bluff your way through a moment that is going to live forever.
You have to be in the moment.
Thats all you’ve got the option to do.
There are no shortcuts.
Dear God, I wish there was, but theres not.
You just have to make it so.
Ive been lucky that Ive been able to do this as long as I have.
I wonder what I would do in the those same circumstances?
We are going to be all right.
America has been in worse places than we are at right now.
Every dinner table ended up being as close to a fistfight as human families are allow.
We have this magnificent thing that is in place.
We are going to be all right because we constantly get to tell the world who we.
We constantly get to define ourselves as Americans.
We do have the greatest country in the world.
We move at a slow pace.
We have the greatest country in the world because we are always moving towards a more perfect union.
That journey never ceases, it never stops.
We, who are a week into wondering what the hell just happened, will continue to move forward.
Im lucky enough to have in my possession a piece of modern art.
We were not allowed to touch it.
We could only look at it.
An Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter.
Ive got like five of them.
That makes me a bajillionaire.
And what a lesson that is.
We will turn it into a thing of beauty.
Isnt that what artists do?
We will take everything that has been handed to us as Americans.
