When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate.
Philip Seymour HoffmanDon't let people treat you like a cigarette, they only use you when they're bored and step on you when they're done. Be like drugs, let them die for you.
Philip Seymour HoffmanWhen you think about [Truman] Capote in the - was what he did exploitative of a person's life or exploitative of these murders? You look at our culture now, you look at celebrity and how it plays out in our culture now, and Capote was one of the great PR men of his time.
Philip Seymour Hoffman