
And it's many different kinds of processes. And that doesn't mean I'm sitting at my desk all the time, but it does mean that I've got a continuous thought process, a continuous engagement with the material I'm trying to shape. His album Sleep is the most streamed classical album of all timeįor me, the creative process is a sort of a continuous thing in the sense that I'm writing kind of all the time, at some level. They're going to figure out whether you are in any way trying to handle that. You have to let them.they're very, very smart people, and they're going to figure out whatever it is that you're doing. And then Amy Adams was somebody who, you know, tried to get along with everybody and Phil would say like, 'You just want everybody to like you.' So, you know, you're in the middle of that group, and you just, you don't want to put yourself in a position where you're trying to prove something. He's a very prickly person prone to getting pissed off about things that you might not expect. She was, I'm the new kid on the block, and I'm just here to work and be serious and do my job, keep my head down, and get out. And pretty much that's what I was doing too, you know, because I've got Meryl Streep, I've got Philip Hoffman, who I was friends with, but Phil's not an easy guy to be friends with or was not easy to be friends with.

You know, she certainly wasn't throwing weight around. Viola had done a decent amount of big work before Doubt, but she was not recognized yet.

And so he could become impatient with anybody who was not committed to excellence, and that could make him a volatile person to deal with. Before we did Doubt, we worked in the same theater company together, and he was, you know, very committed to excellence. I knew Philip Seymour Hoffman for several years.


