59 Quotes by Philip Hoffman

If that stuff does transpire, I'm very excited. I think I would be more nerve-wracked or nervous if it was just about me as an actor, ... But it is more than that/ What if a ton of people saw this movie ... our first film? Awards season can always help a film that way.

when he was becoming more and more diseased. I was trying to capture the man at the height of his powers.

I would vouch for those two in the room with a very strong conviction. I was saying to the executives, 'If you believe in me, believe in them.' We kind of all went out on a limb together.

I went (to rehab), I got sober when I was 22 years old. You get panicked ... and I got panicked for my life.

I was given the best part of my life, basically, and I know that.

I think I'm like any actor, most actors it's kind of inbred in you that you're never going to work again even if you are working a lot.

I thought, If we never get the money, we'll all be off the hook.

That's what attracted me to it. I wasn't interested in doing it if it was just going to be about trying to portray Truman Capote and if I could be successful or not. It really was about the inevitability of a tragedy unfolding.

You know, I literally lost all control of my bowels up there. I couldn't think. I was swimming in my head. So I was lucky to get out what I got out.