When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate.
Philip Seymour HoffmanThe ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.
Philip Seymour HoffmanI've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.
Philip Seymour HoffmanUltimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest, too.
Philip Seymour HoffmanWe really enjoy that, having a relationship with writers, developing material and getting a director, actors, that we have kind of that family kind of as a group we're going to do it together mentality in a project. Then the tough part is - so what actually goes has very little to do with us sometimes.
Philip Seymour Hoffman