Excerpt from An Appreciation, Philip Seymour Hoffman, 1967-2014, "Hoffman: Always a little danger, a lot of intelligence" by Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Critic:
I interviewed Hoffman at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2008, where he was promotingSynecdoche, New York, written and directed by his friend Charlie Kaufman. Hoffman plays a theater director whose psyche is exposed in surreal tableaus. He's on screen for almost every frame.
It's a movie about the passage of time. About illness. About death.
"Isn't it heartbreaking that we all have to die?" Hoffman said about the role, about the film, on that September day in Toronto. "And that we might see our children die, and we're not going to understand? We're never going to feel like we're finished, and we wish we would but we don't . . . .
"These things sound depressing - but no, that's life. That's what it is. And that's beautiful and that's sad and that's a lot of things."
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/onmovies/Philip-Seymour-Hoffman-.html#UuWSJ6Ax5UYFe2hk.99
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