Tom Hanks on Cloud Atlas: I am a lay historian by nature and I seek out an empirical reflection of what truth is. I want dates and motivations. I want the whole story. But, I’ve always felt unconsciously that all human history is that connection from person to person to person, and from event to event to event, and from idea to idea. For me, the movie actually in the voices of particularly Somni, in Doona Bae’s character, she actually gives a vocabulary to it that I think is quite profound. For example, in the beginning when she’s being examined by James D’Arcy, she says “Truth is singular. Versions of truths are mysteries.” I thought holy smokes, that’s the deepest thing I’ve ever heard anywhere and I tried to get through Carlos Castaneda. I tried to do that. Later on, when she’s literally saying the thing that is quoted by Susan Sarandon as the Abbess earlier on — “From womb to tomb, we’re all connected. Your choices reverberate through eternity.” — I think that is such a simple and profound explanation for how we are all connected that I had never thought of before. But now I’ve got it, so I think it actually supports this embracing of the mysteries that I had always been, that had been enough for me prior to making the movie. I have no comment.

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