"Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even……" — Philip Seymour Hoffman
"Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction."
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111 Quotes by Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman has 111 quotes on this site.
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I try to live my life in such a way that I don't have any regrets. That's probably why I…
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All over the world, young men and young women will always dream dreams.
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I think I would have drank myself to death, literally, if I didn't just stop, once and for all when…
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My favorite thing about acting is being alone and going through the scripts and working on it and getting ideas…
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Acting is so difficult for me that, unless the work is of a certain stature in my mind, unless I…
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A lot of people describe me as chubby, which seems so easy, so first-choice. Or stocky. Fair-skinned. Tow-headed. There are…
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I don't know, I was young, I drank too much, you know, so I stopped. You know what I mean,…
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Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live,
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The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films,
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You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say,…
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Was I happy? Or was I just not aware?
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Great talent admits shortcomings.
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More Documentaries Quotes
This quote is filed under Documentaries Quotes,
one of 243 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I love documentaries. It's actually my favorite medium of film.
— Jamie Bell
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By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir…
— Theodore Bikel
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I've done several commercials and I've done voiceovers for documentaries.
— Jeff Bridges
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I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's…
— Sophia Bush
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My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous…
— John Cleese
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Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on…
— Kurt Cobain
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What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a…
— Joseph Conrad
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I wasn't really that informed about the two-year-old. Oh, I'd read about them, and occasionally I'd see documentaries on the…
— Ray Romano
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A good print is really essential. I want to take strong documentary photographs that are as good technically as any…
— Mary Ellen Mark
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My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation…
— Sam Abell
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Fear is not a word in my football documentary.
— Jose Mourinho
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
— Dorothea Lange
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