Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 23, 1967 - February 2, 2014

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RelationshipGunYouHardDirector

Training readers to expect a voice or subject matter from me would interfere with the reinvention I crave. At the same time, I feel almost too able to disappear at times.

Jennifer Egan

TimeTrainingMeVoiceFeelMatter

While we do not ask for accolades, we must defend ourselves from repeated public attacks.

Andrew Thomas

AskDefendMustOurselvesPublic

'Resident Evil: Damnation' was physically mo-capped and recorded with the mo-cap actors first, so there wasn't a whole lot of flexibility with timing, so it was more stringent. We had to go in individually.

Matthew Mercer

EvilGoTimingMoreFirstWhole

There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.

Matt Drudge

FutureMeWorldInternetCitizen

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

Michael Apted

TodayGreatImaginationTalentStory

I was the class innuendist.

Michael Feldman

Class

I don't know that Donald Trump really cares about what the outcome is, as long as he's in charge of it. Seeing whom he can steer in which direction and how far he can push them.

John Schneider

DirectionPushLongSeeingKnowFar

Any item in your wardrobe should satisfy one of two criteria: utility and joy.

Stacy London

JoyTwoYourUtilityWardrobeItem

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

Truman Capote

GoodConversationMeetWhyTwo

I think if you study people in the street today, you do sometimes feel that they have taken their behavior and their language from things that they have seen rather than read - from soap operas and movies and so on.

Ronald Frame

TodayPeopleThinkLanguageBehavior

In 'Packing for Mars,' I tried to convey the importance of getting young people interested in science.

Mary Roach

SciencePeopleYoungMarsPacking

I'm very happy.

Josh Hutcherson

HappyVery

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