There's something in the very small minutia of life that tells us something about the big, big picture … - Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Philip Seymour Hoffman

There's something in the very small minutia of life that tells us something about the big, big picture that we see every day all over the place, and so I think the more specific and creative and revelatory you are in the micro, the more powerful the macro will be.

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