"Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.“


-Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

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