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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.
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
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Philip Hoffman
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I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.
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The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It's like going to get all the ingredients together, and you've got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake - or not.
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In film, you have to let go sometimes.
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I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.
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I think I'm less anonymous than I was.
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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 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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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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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 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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Women are the life force we look at for their beauty.
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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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We really enjoy that, having a relationship with writers, developing material and getting a director, actors, that we have kind of that family kind of as a group we're going to do it together mentality in a project. Then the tough part is - so what actually goes has very little to do with us sometimes.
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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 think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.
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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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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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Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.
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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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Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly.
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