God damn he was so brilliant. I am moved to tears when I think that he won't ever come back and make some wonderful movies. There's nobody out there like him.

"The task of an actor is to defend everyone you play." That whole segment was one of the most profound pieces of acting advice I've ever heard.

movies are empty without him. He was such a brilliant actor that he left a void in the film industry that cannot be filled,

happiness is the forgetfulness of oneself in the moment

There is so much love when he talks about his kids.

Philip Seymour Hoffman: "Pleasure is not happiness. I kill pleasure. I take take too much of it and therefore make it unpleasurable. Like too much coffee and you're miserable. I do that to pleasure often. There's no pleasure that I haven't actually made my self sick on. And so I look at pleasure and kind of get scared." Simon Critchley: "I get paid to think - and not think that much."

I don't want him to be gone. I feel like I lost a close family member. R.I.P. This interview made me cry.

It hurt me so bad when Philip passed away. Top quality performance in all he did. RIP, Philip!

Great video. PSH is such a "common man"..., and the BEST actor ever - as in E-V-E-R..., hate that he is gone.

I'm so gutted I discovered Mr Hoffman after his death, he's just unreal, I admire his hard work more than anything.

I'm only 12 minutes into the conversation and it's already unsettling and painful to listen to some of the things said, in light of what happened. Part of the reason I "fell" for Hoffmann were some beautiful, deep, honest, clever interviews I read which showed a complex and fascinating mind (&soul). I cried like an incredulous baby over his death (and the death of David Bowie, for other reasons, which is kind of a coincidence for me now with Critchley also being a superfan) and felt we were being robbed of some incredible art to come. Of some incredible sensitivity, lived through, displayed, donated. Being extremely insightful, selfaware, intelligent (and able to be daringly creative) is no shield at all, ever.

Philip Seymour Hoffman was a great philosopher.

This is an incredible interview. Critchley is absolutely wonderful to have discussed these issues with Hoffman...a loving individual. I always knew Hoffman was deep and brilliant. You cannot have created the body of empathetic work he created with the depth of love for the most foul of human traits...that he created. His death was a sacrifice...but we learn from his work...and I will now read Critchley. Thankful he is on our shores.

Oh damn, he was really thoughtful and intelligent.

Amazing person...greatly missed

"Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don't throw away the best of yourself.”-Friedrich Nietzsche. There is something about this interview that reminds me that those dark parts of ourselves we try to hide, are the parts that need the most acceptance and when exposed are also the most healing to other people.

Hoffman is the real philosopher here

"by identifying the point in the past were we were deformed, we can become perfect again" exactly :)

*Watching the late Seymour Hoffman in Twister 1996 the other day, one of my favorite movies, I realized what a tragic waste his passing was.*

Phil talks about being and how hard it is but I find it quite easy to be at times, and very pleasurable especially when there is no "I" to mess with things.....just sitting and being

I miss this guy so much!

I think the first ingredient to take out of someone"s life to help them 'just be', is fame, the worry for the approval of others. On the other hand, the ancient glory was a confirmation that you lived a meaningful life. We re going to miss Hoffman. His imense generosity.

Thank you, Simon!! One of my favourite interviews with Philip Seymour Hoffman!

And then there's happiness in the form of contentedness.

But I am so "happy" to get to watch Philip, such a great, great actor. love his work, his persona, the way he talks, just a guy next door. There are not words...

"Blank on Blank" brings me here.

We love you, Phil. Always. You can never be replaced. You were a gifted storyteller, and thank you for your contribution to this planet, but Goddamnit, if you had only reached out. Fucking depression. Fucking Addiction. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. *huge sad sigh*

PHS sits humbly, like a kid being taught something new and interesting when the subject of death is brought up near the end of the interview. His body language communicates something altogether different from the rest of the interview....like a student who is simply listening. Very few actors leave such a feeling of what could have been when they die....PHS was the greatest!!!!

enable ratings, the comment section will prob be a mess anyway, not the likes tho. Philip was brilliant. he deserves this video to be watched.

If we watch the exchanges between Hoffman and Critchley we immediately sensation that Hoffman is a natural philosopher whilst Critchley comes across as a natural actor and acts at philosophising without actually philosophising at all and Hoffman has an overwhelming abundance of dasein whilst Critchley has an underwhelming poverty of dasein that is no dasein at all since Critchley is vacuous as an absolute-absence-not-being-there whilst Hoffman is vivacious as a potent-presence-being-there . When we all watch this video we uncannily and unwittingly realise that it is actually Hoffman who is the real philosopher and Critchley who is the real actor as Critchley comes across as acting all the time whilst Hoffman comes across as philosophising all the time .

Dam , what a shame , that he is no longer here !

I have just found this interview. It makes me still very sad to see and hear him, mentioning his children.....

Happiness is a false God (an impossible goal). I think we should strive for contentment. That's the closest we can get to "happiness".

Some say happiness is a choice, that we are as happy as we allow ourselves to be.

I've never been so excited to see a video in my suggested videos. 💙

will be missed forever. RIP Phillip!

Wow this is kind of difficult to watch. We have lost a great one. But thanks for the upload. RIP Mr. Hoffman.

Happiness doesn't require "the other" Being there, I can be happy as a fuck sitting on a bench in the sun without anyone there

Thank you star's. Thank you moon. Thank you... *Master*

Many people (meaning most) try to divide and subdivide LOVE up into slices (Such as happiness, joy, pleasure. . . ) and try to just go after the slices they desire like at an all you can eat pizza buffet! True LOVE encompasses and endures all things and still LOVES! (Which is what unconditional LOVE is and does!) [Expand this post below!] FLESHLY "LOVE" is conditional attempting to over-compensate in the perpetuation and justification of itself both in the giving and the receiving of excessive conditional-love for NOT being itself unconditionally LOVING! (Which is in and of itself an endless vicious self-perpetuating cycle!) Dysfunction and division can NEVER be solved with further dysfunction and division! (NO-MATTER how ones slices and dices it) Which just keeps up the MULTIPLYING and DIVIDING of itself! LOVE is about being WHOLE and undivided both individually and collectively! NOT division which is perpetuated by ones self-imposed FEAR of lack and limitation! (TRUTH and ones CREATED-REALITY are two completely different things!)

Excellent and yes, sadly missed. Thank you for this.

Best PSH interview I have seen.

Such an extraordinary and fascinating conversation. I’m mesmerized by Philip Hoffman.

Happiness is being safe, secure and loved, by yourself as well as others. Happiness is innocence.

Great talk

He was the best actor I have ever seen, ever! Aside from that I feel for him and his family. Unfortunately I know exactly how he was feeling and it is rough, real rough.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman was so mentally ill , so addicted, so tortured. I get him, as an intersexed person person who has struggled with all of this all my life! I struggled with sexual abuse, and then bulimia and depression and other food issues related to my sexual abuse, until my adult life. And then my intersexulity came out at 15 years old! And then no help until I got help my self at 19 years old! My intersexulity was never diagnosed until I was 19, when I had researched my own issues!!

Love this man - I recently wondered if he might have lived. If so, I understand. To live amongst them and survive is excruciating. I respect you and if you are still on this earth in this lifetime, I respect you even more. I get it.

Very astute observation Phillip. I kill pleasure by taking too much of it. It’s what killed him. What a loss for us.

And thanks very much for the upload.

Wonderful!!!!

"There is no pleasure that I haven't made myself sick on."

Simon is a fascinating man also. Sometimes I think you can be TOO INTELLIGENT and it can be self destructive. RIP Philip Hoffman.

so amazing.. thanks for sharing

That was ...so good!!!

loved his work!!!

It's like they had a contest to see who could act more tired, hungover, whilst pontificating.

I remember happiness. I just don't remember how to get back there.

Lovely Actor .

When you are struggling with addiction and wrangling from a life time of religious monstrosities, it may never leave you.

When you leave religious chains, and go on, sometimes you never get free. As a psychiatric nurse, who has struggled with addiction myself, after I retired I got help!

Philip ❤️

Crazy him talking about this when he had such a dark deep secret with Heroin.

In Memoriam .

It is so strange to see Simon talking about death with Philip...

So this is what philosophers do. Wow. Phil shoot's down the expert's concept of happiness in 30 seconds. "I kill pleasure."

Oh, sweet, sweet, sweet Phil. I've nothing to add. Except that his New York accent is very strong in this video, no? Just an observation.

Happiness comes on you accidentally as you do worthwhile things. Happiness comes from activity.

Ι love the way he pronounces the word ευδαιμονία (eudaimonia)

41:50 "We live in a culture that denies death and flees death and is therefore constantly shocked by it because we keep it at the edges all the time. We don’t have the rituals. We don’t know what to do. We're confused by death and death is somehow obscene. We need to shove it somewhere else."

Life is dhukkha - the first nobel truth. Dont expect happiness.

0 seconds ago Good early questions. He talks of being connected with his kids when they are okay. I sense that happiness is to do with connection but not when it is dependent on the outcome: such as, ‘being okay’. That is just fortuitous. I suspect happiness is when we are connected but our state of connection is not dependent on things being good or bad. We experience trauma whilst connected which distracts us from connection but whilst we are present and connected with our circumstances there is real happiness and it is possible to deal with trauma whilst connected. The tendency is to cover over the connection and I suspect that it is sometimes necessary to do that. I love PSH but his existential pain was overwhelming. Sadly I suspect that also made him the great actor he was.

He was hilarious in Along Came Polly.

He is actively describing depression. It's so sad to see.

Here’s a person talking of happiness about one year before his own death. He was found dead with a needle in his arms and left w/ 35M dollars. The very fact reflects what happiness should be. It’s not what states but demands of you. - NYC, 2/25/2021

This is one view of happiness. I am of the opinion that happiness originates in a logical and well executed mind, of a life of thought in addition to one's life in a society, family, loved... The life of the mind should be as vivacious and energetic as the life of a person. We have, for example, art. We are the only species in earth that has art, poetry, and music. This distinguishes us from other animals. We have religion. Name another species that has that? We explain nature with mathematics and science, and build technology and redefine how we dream month to month with mathematics, science, and technology. We are the great living paradox of what we call Earth. I think what we do is as important way to frame the question. To otherwise do so is an act of hubris, which is the true faith of humanity. We assume we can plan outcome, when we can merely inherit it. This was a great talk, however.

I wish I had known him.

RIP

To Philip... who escape to the valley By Dave Courtois. the valley of endless dream How far is your gate, How deep is your game... When it came in? where is go out? did you feel on the edge? Role in, roll out, be the limit, see a little further... Take your time, be it, stay in, pop out. Look around and be it, be it. Push it, pull out, make it inside out. Object of nothing, subject to logic, the action will be magic. Lost in the infinite measure of space. You are the none sens of the direction you take. Being the experience, what else can be lost. Be the subject, be the object, be the action, you are nothing more than music. Travel around, be the destination, you are welcome. Teach it, put it on paper, repeat it, repeat it, repeat it, make it real. Cut the equation whit a mirror, let reflect the illusion. There so much to forgot before you know, you are not what you think. Be useful to be use, make yourself fit. Be put in peace, fit in the puzzle, who appreciate the landscape. Pattern of the past, kaleidoscope in motion, keep it changing... Faction of fractal, colourful limits of infinity falling in the dance of time. Afraid to be forgot, afraid to be nothing, afraid to be apart... Run, run, run to reach your speed. Move to exist, put your trace, Is there a race? Win the prize you pay. Prisoner of movement, how long is your road? don’t be afraid by the end! Wake-up wake-up, and see the real part of the dream. Now sleep to to make it yours. You are welcome at the valley of endless dream!

AGREE.

Seymour did not really understand happiness. He was really pursuing what he thought might be happiness. Pleasure, getting high, power, fame...it all may or may not give us that nebulous concept of fulfillment. It is not the same for everyone. So many people never get there because there is always something better.

Is there any subtitled version? I would really appreciate,because i only understand half of things and is so fucking interesting!!!

I'm kind of tired of how people seem to think he was incredibly troubled and unhappy to take heroin. of course i have no idea what went on in his life, but he might just had a void in his life that tried to fill, many people do it. Or releave stress. Or he was temporarily lost. Maybe he had undiagnosed mental problems that he was trying medicate himself. Of course he was a dad that should make you more careful in your actions. But Somehow I can't think he was deeply unhappy, from listening to his interviews. I think maybe he was demanding too much from himself and he was unlucky to get addicted and consequently die. Just a thought.

Feel happiness. Feel feelings. Thinking about it is silly. Everyone has missed the point.

anyone know what sermon he is talking about? or if it is online somewhere?

Maybe I just don't personally relate to any of what he says, but if anyone has edited this to remove the puffed-up, pointless Critchley and just leave PSH's bits, I'd love the link.

I agree with one commenter below... the women in the audience and their fucking nervous laughter when things are serious puts me on edge. Do you think its a comedy routine with Hoffman and a philosopher? Please, go see some standup.

7th anniversary of his passing - RIP

He was just too smart for his own good...sometimes is better to be born dumb and stupid....

My English is not good enough, can anybody please tell me the name of the play/production Philip Seymour Hoffman is talking about at the beginning of the talk, thanks in advance.

33:25 Simon Critchley mentions a film here, does anyone know the name of it, because I couldn't understand him? Thanks.

que alguien lo traduzca al español!

What movie are they talking about?

Happiness is the point of life? Purposely choosing not to be is simply organizing a system. Go to the lowest and you will know what I mean. We are supposed to find that again?

34:43 what movie is he speaking of?

BUT YOU BOTH ARE LAUGHING AND SEEM TO BE ENJOYING YOURSELVES. (CAPS FOR BAD EYES).

Without the giggling audience this would be watchable, and could mature more.

🔥 I laughed, I cried..no joke! 1:26 💖💯💗 👇 👇💙

è tanto triste per tanti motivi mi dispiace tanto ke si sia lasciato yrvolgere da gente ke vende morte

Someone made the argument before, and I wish I could find the article, it debates Jack Black and PSH going for the same roles at least when both were earlier in their career. Anyone ever hear of that? It would seem at one time, that may had been true, but PSH took a big left turn. Closest I could find is this short article. www.hollywood.com/news/movies/3498341/jack-black-haunted-by-philip-seymour-hoffman?page=all