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" I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting. "
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Acting
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Directing
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" There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem. "
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" Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction. "
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" People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to. "
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" I had a father who was a traveling salesman. "
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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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" I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got. "
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" Ultimately what I'll do next is up in the air for me. "
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" 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. "
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" The idea that you have a vision of what you're supposed to be, or going to be, or where your kids are going to be - and that that doesn't work out - is always going to be something that's going to affect people and move people. "
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Always
" My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise. "
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" You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way. "
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" I've never been on a cruise. "
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" My ideal weight is 205, actually. "
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Ideal
Actually
" Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time. "
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Feel
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" It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards. "
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Things
Watch
Hard
" To be fair to my dad, he is one of the brightest men I've ever met. "
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Brightest
Ever
" I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do. "
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Want
Confident
Leadership
" I've grown to really love musicals, you know? "
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You
Musicals
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" I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress. "
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" It's hard for anybody who works a lot and has children. But I wouldn't trade it for anything. "
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Children
Hard
Trade
" The size of my head though is pretty abnormal. "
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Size
Though
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" If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can. "
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I Can
Now
Time
" In a film there a lot of people scheduling, you know. "
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Scheduling
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Know
" 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. "
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" One person's religion is another person's cult. "
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" I know I wasn't as handsome as some other guys, but I was OK with that. "
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" I didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts. "
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" Yeah, writers do hate writing. "
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" People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be. "
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