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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.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Yeah, writers do hate writing.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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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.'
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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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.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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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.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Ultimately what I'll do next is up in the air for me.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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My ideal weight is 205, actually.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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I didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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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.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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I don't want to repeat myself.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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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.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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My mum is incredibly intelligent.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
