If I don’t feel like I’m doing the job well, and I don’t know how to get there, or I’m too scared, or whatever, I’m not a happy guy and I’m not pleasant. I’m not pleasant to be around. – Philip Seymour Hoffman
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. – Philip Seymour Hoffman
Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction. – Philip Seymour Hoffman
I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do. – Philip Seymour Hoffman
The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed… They’re all inside me somewhere. – Philip Seymour Hoffman
When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that’s basically all you want to talk about. – Philip Seymour Hoffman
You have to understand that crew members make movies so they’re seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting. – Philip Seymour Hoffman
The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool. – Philip Seymour Hoffman
I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn’t think that, there would be something wrong with me. I’m grateful and thankful for what I’ve got. – Philip Seymour Hoffman
I’ve worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I’ve played characters that are unhinged. That’s, like, my job. – Philip Seymour Hoffman
There are characters in movies who I call ‘film characters.’ They don’t exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike. – Philip Seymour Hoffman
When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It’s an awakening, a revelation that you have. – Philip Seymour Hoffman
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. – Philip Seymour Hoffman
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. – Philip Seymour Hoffman
When people don’t know who you are, they’re seeing your work for the first time. But if they’ve seen a lot, getting certain things across is a more difficult. – Philip Seymour Hoffman
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