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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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Philip Seymour Hoffman
Age: 46 †
Born: 1967
Born: July 23
Died: 2014
Died: February 2
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Film Director
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Philip Hoffman
Phil Hoffman
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Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.
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Study, find all the good teachers and study with them, get involved in acting to act, not to be famous or for the money. Do plays. It's not worth it if you are just in it for the money. You have to love it.
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I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.
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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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I was probably finding my feet more than anybody. I really have to say I was more obsessed with myself faltering than anybody else.
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You have all the influence you choose to have.
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Bob Glaudini, the writer, he's a wonderfully talented man and all his plays and his screenplays, they all have sense of something bigger, even though you're looking at something very simple.
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I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.
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There’s a period of time in your life when I kind of look back, and I’m like, was I happy, or was I just not aware?
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[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.
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I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted.
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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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When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty.
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To act well isn't an easy thing.
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Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It's long, and it's long pertaining to that thought, that the past is not done with you because you can't rid of it.
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I've never been on a cruise.
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People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.
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There's something in the very small minutia of life that tells us something about the big, big picture that we see every day all over the place, and so I think the more specific and creative and revelatory you are in the micro, the more powerful the macro will be.
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I think I would have drank myself to death, literally, if I didn't just stop, once and for all when I did. I am not ever going to preach to anyone about drugs or drinking. But, for me, when they were around, I had no self control.
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I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.
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