Philip Hoffman
Philip Hoffman
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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.
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I did have hesitations and just knew that if I made the story the main character and really worked on that to fulfill it in a very personal and soulful way, that all the technical stuff about playing him would become secondary for people watching the movie.
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That technical stuff is really practice. It's not some magical thing. It's hard work, like an athlete, in a way. You just have to practice how to embody this character. If I'm playing a character who isn't like I am, it can take months and months.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We're at the party, mom. Be proud mom, because I'm proud of you.
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To play a bad guy in an action movie is something I've never done, and I don't know if I'll ever do it again. So this is really that opportunity, and it's the perfect place to do it, perfect people to do it with.
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Wow, I'm in a category with some great, great, great actors, fantastic actors, and I'm overwhelmed. Really overwhelmed.
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when he was becoming more and more diseased. I was trying to capture the man at the height of his powers.
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But because of his intelligence, his wit and his insightfulness and his kind of all-consuming warmth, that would go away.
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I have known Bennett a long time, ... I know a lot about him and he knows a lot about me, and I never doubted he would make the best film possible.
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If we hit Truman's part right, it would reverberate. So that's what I concentrated on: Getting it right.
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When I started studying him, then became semi-obsessed with him, I saw the parallels, ... In our ages, that we're both artists, in the price that's paid for going after something with complete focus, with blinders on. And the discovery that what you wish for most probably won't bring you happiness.