Philip Seymour Hoffman On Acting And Directing At The Same Time (He Didn’t Like It)

“[If] you’re directing and acting you’re on both sides of that equation so everyone’s just waiting on you completely which is … it needs to be shared, that relationship. There needs to be an actor and a director and they should be sharing the responsibility of getting it right. … I remember going, ‘Phil, remember this, remember this feeling right now. Don’t do this again’.”