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Creating anything is hard.

~Philip Seymour Hoffman

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When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let go of ultimately.

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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.

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I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.

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

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I don't have a specific thing I want anyone to get out of anything I do.

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My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.

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

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I like to come to the set with very strong ideas and strong opinions about how to do things. And I like also dealing with somebody who's like that.

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I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: July 23rd, 1967

Died: February 2nd, 2014

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