Quotes by Jake Hoffman

[on Woody Allen] ''Allen is my favorite director, and since a short time, a very good friend of mine. I was 7 years old when I watched Annie Hall and it became instantly my favorite movie of all time. There has never been a filmmaker since Woody Allen that made me laugh as much as he did. I also considered as an honour to play the main character in Midnight In Paris, it was a real dream come true which I was never expecting to become reality.''

[on method acting] ''Marlon Brando did it, Robert De Niro did it. A lot of actors of the former Hollywood did it and I think it is your duty as an actor to try to become the character that you play. I obviously do not destroy my teeth and fix them afterwards like De Niro did for Cape Fear, but I try to feel the emotion that my characters feel as much as possible.''

[on Little Miss Sunshine] ''The film was directed by two filmmakers actually and they both were so good together that I never had such a professional experience with a double director. The role was also a lot of fun, it is definetely a character I have never played before and it is funny to become something that is so different then you actually are in real life.''

[on directing] ''Even though I love movies, I never really understood the big artistic integridy behind it. For me being a filmmaker myself I usually try to focus on the screenplay and the concept of the idea. Is it enjoyable? It is a good story and does it compell something? Things I always think is most important in movies, but when movie buffs begin to talk about camera-standpoints and the visual style I try to think for a moment and than I say my automatic line: just make sure we see what we need to see. Then it will be allright.''