Colin Hanks
Colin Hanks
Colin Hanks is an American actor. He is known for starring in the 2002 film Orange County and the 2010 Fox TV series The Good Guys, as well as television roles including Alex Whitman in Roswell, Henry Jones in Band of Brothers, Travis Marshall in Dexter, officer Gus Grimly in Fargo, and Greg Short in Life in Pieces. He is the eldest son of actor Tom Hanks...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth24 November 1977
CitySacramento, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I probably need another couple of years of absorbing that and really looking at it to be able to do it because you actually have to know everybody's job and I don't know everybody's job yet. I'm just now comfortable with my own.
I pretty much know that directing means that you have to answer about a thousand questions every day and you have to answer them quick.
Each one is different. Each project is different. Some are silly, some are not. Some are more realistic, some are not. Some are overly dramatic, some are not. You've just got to try and find the thing that's most engaging and entertaining in whatever way, shape or form, and it's different every time.
Honestly, the two main things that I always look for is, when I read the script for the first time, do I read it quickly? Because if I read it quick, that's an important telltale sign.
If I could spend more months out of the year employed than unemployed, that would be nice.
I've always really been a fan of scenes in which you're able to be as natural as you want.
You learn stuff from your kids, every day.
When it comes down to it, I just want to work.
Everyone in my industry, the movie industry, is looking at the music industry and going, 'How do we avoid that collapse?' And I don't know if you can, to be quite honest!
I'm trying to be really coy, and I'm not sure if I'm doing a good job.
No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks down like high school does. You have your social cliques, you have the people you get along with, the people you don't and the people you're ambivalent about. All of the dynamics are still here.
But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.
I knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it was acting because I knew that I would be making things hard on myself. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of a hullabaloo because of my dad being who he is and all that.
My dad has always been extremely supportive in every decision I've made and much more interested in me picking what I wanted to do.