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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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People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.
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I have three children and I think I'm happy when I'm with them and they're okay. When I see them enjoying each other in front of me, and then they let me enjoy them in turn. That brings a feeling which I would say is happiness.
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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've been reading a bunch of stuff lately - like Joseph Campbell - that has made me realize that people in our cultural, especially in the liberal community, often go in search of a foe. It's like we always need a hill to climb up or something to push against, or we feel as if we're not working constructively in the world.
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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 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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I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.
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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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In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't.
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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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Yeah, writers do hate writing.
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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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A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.
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Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.
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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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Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live.
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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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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
To act well isn't an easy thing.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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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