Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It's like going to get all the ingredients together, and you've got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake - or not.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Editing, Cake, Shopping

  "Philip Seymour Hoffman Goes Directing", www.interviewmagazine.com. December 14, 2010.

• In film, you have to let go sometimes.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Letting Go, Sometimes, Film

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. September 15, 2010.

• I think Magnolia is one of the best films I've ever seen and I can say that straight and out and anybody that disagrees with me I'll fight you to the death. I just think it is one of the greatest films I've ever been in and ever seen.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Fighting, Thinking, Film

• My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Priorities, Acting, Way

• Film'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 Hoffman

  Gun, Directors, Film

  "Philip Seymour Hoffman: The ESQ&A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. October 10, 2012.

• Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Fiction, Documentaries, Kind

  Interview with Meghan O'Rourke, www.slate.com. January 31, 2006.

• Well, 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 Hoffman

  Thinking, Directors, Film

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. September 15, 2010.

• There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Real, Character, Play

  Interview with Meghan O'Rourke, www.slate.com. January 31, 2006.

• Sometimes it's hard to say no. Ultimately, if you stick to your guns, you have the career that you want. Don't get me wrong. I love a good payday and I'll do films for fun. But ultimately my main goal is to do good work. If it doesn't pay well, so be it.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Fun, Gun, Careers

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Strange, Film, Strange Things

  "Philip Seymour Hoffman, Dead at 46, Spoke Candidly About Addiction" by Asawin Suebsaeng, www.motherjones.com. February 2, 2014.

• Frankly, I get much more sensitive about what's written about me than how I look in a photo. I'm so used to people seeing my image in plays and films that what they think about how I look is none of my business. If they says, "Hey, he doesn't look good," I'm like, Whatever, because I know I look different from day to day. But if you're up there putting your heart into something and people reject your performance, that's very painful. The written word can kick your ass.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Heart, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Careers, Ideas, Would Be

  "Philip Seymour Hoffman Dies" by James White, www.empireonline.com. February 3, 2014.

• The film is made in the editing room.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Editing, Rooms, Ingredients

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