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Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.
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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Fairport
New York
Philip Hoffman
Phil Hoffman
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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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[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.
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I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.
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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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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 got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.
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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.
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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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