I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.
Philip Seymour HoffmanDirecting is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.
Philip Seymour HoffmanI like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.
Philip Seymour HoffmanI was a breed of people who aren't capable of doing anything, really. At college I began to get the idea that being macho wasn't the accepted norm in the liberal world, and especially the world I entered into, which was the artistic world. I had a lot of problems with that because I was struggling with the need to be proud of being a man, which wasn't something I was feeling.
Philip Seymour Hoffman