Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
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I didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts.
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Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.
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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.
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I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me that struggled with those things.
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Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.
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I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'
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You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.
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I don't want to repeat myself.
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If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.
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I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.
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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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I think part of being an actor is staying private.
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My ideal weight is 205, actually.
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Yeah, writers do hate writing.