Directing 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 HoffmanWell, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.
Philip Seymour HoffmanI 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 HoffmanI have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'
Philip Seymour Hoffman