Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
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The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It's like going to get all the ingredients together, and you've got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake - or not.
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There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.
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I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film.
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There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.
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The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.
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Creating something is all about problem-solving.
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People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.
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I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.
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You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way.
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The weight comes off, you know? If you stop with the bread and the pie, it really does. It really works.
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I've grown to really love musicals, you know?
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Actors are investigators.
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I like to come to the set with very strong ideas and strong opinions about how to do things. And I like also dealing with somebody who's like that.
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I do understand what it is to not want to commit to someone, knowing that might bring pain or commit to a life that has to do with being responsible to people other than myself. These things, I think, are normal things.
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If I don't feel like I'm doing the job well, and I don't know how to get there, or I'm too scared, or whatever, I'm not a happy guy and I'm not pleasant. I'm not pleasant to be around.
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It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards.
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I don't have a specific thing I want anyone to get out of anything I do.
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Creating anything is hard.
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Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.
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The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.
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I had a father who was a traveling salesman.
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It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.
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Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.
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I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.