Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffmanwas an American actor, director, and producer of film and theater. Best known for his distinctive supporting and character roles Hoffman was a regular presence in films from the early 1990s until his death at age 46...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth23 July 1967
CityFairport, NY
CountryUnited States of America
powerful thinking creative
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.
ambition center-of-attention succeed
The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.
letting-go playing-someone burden
When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let go of ultimately.
helping-others worry kind
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.
men simple play
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.
concerts
I didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts.
play acting nervous
I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.
school college play
I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.
together groups actors
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.
father salesman
I had a father who was a traveling salesman.
strong ideas opinion
I like to come to the set with very strong ideas and strong opinions about how to do things. And I like also dealing with somebody who's like that.
thinking
I think I'm less anonymous than I was.
passion thinking feelings
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.
knows
I've grown to really love musicals, you know?