It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.
Philip Seymour HoffmanFilm'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 HoffmanI have an awful memory, and I have a great memory. Meaning that, if I'm trying to remember something, I can't remember it. But my recall is fantastic.
Philip Seymour HoffmanI had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me that struggled with those things.
Philip Seymour HoffmanMy favorite thing about acting is being alone and going through the scripts and working on it and getting ideas and asking myself questions, looking outside myself for them and researching and getting to the bottom of something and being creative with it as an actor and how to express it in a creative fashion. That's my favorite part. And, the actual acting of it.
Philip Seymour Hoffman