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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

#director #film #gun #hard #hire

I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#directing #get #i #like #nervous

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#confident #directors #i #i think #leadership

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#company #constantly #different #different things #direct

I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can't make it. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#great #great people #i #involved #lot

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#life #looking #objectively #outside #pretty

The idea that you have a vision of what you're supposed to be, or going to be, or where your kids are going to be - and that that doesn't work out - is always going to be something that's going to affect people and move people. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#always #going #idea #kids #move

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

#director #film #going #i #i think

I don't have a director. The audience directs me. ↗

— Hal Holbrook

#director #directs #i #me

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#cannot #effects #frivolous #result #sophisticated