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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.
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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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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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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When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty.
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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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Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.
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Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest, too.
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My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.
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You have all the influence you choose to have.
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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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The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films.
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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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If all people are encouraged to actually see who they're coexisting with, or even if they're not coexisting with other people.It's like to look at the world you're in.
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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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I've never been on a cruise.
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There's things that you don't want to do and they keep haunting you and following you. Bennett Miller directed this project [Capote], who is a friend of mine since I was 16, and Danny Futterman wrote it, and he's also been a friend of mine since I was 16.
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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'm less anonymous than I was.
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My soul is in good shape.
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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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When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.
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