#ow

You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#beautiful #enduring #feel #get #guilty

There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#bored #boredom #continuously #depressed #goes

I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#grotesque #how #i #i wonder #just

And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#audience #cost #film #make #movie

I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#because #believe #expert #hegemony #i

You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#churches #cult #cults #look #own

In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States. ↗

— Robert Welch

#branches #constitution #divided #government #governmental

So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#army #because #college #first #go

Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#always #because #being #fired #getting

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