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" 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

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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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" 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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