Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
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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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If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.
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Yeah, writers do hate writing.
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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 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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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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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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Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.
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My ideal weight is 205, actually.
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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 didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts.
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I don't want to repeat myself.
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I think part of being an actor is staying private.
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Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.