"So let’s get to the good stuff. Tom Hanks has only made four pretty good films. What are they? Luckily, Hanks did us the decency of listing three of them on the Bill Simmons podcast last year. Those three were A League of Their Own (“Because all I did all summer was play baseball”), Castaway (“We just had bold adventures when we were making that movie”) and Cloud Atlas (“We shot it on a hope and a dream and nothing but a circle of love”)."

If you watch the Simmons podcast, Hanks says that they were based on his personal experience of doing them, not "the way the movie came out"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix6dw8GHPhE