“I'm really happy that I didn't see Capote until after we wrapped because I probably just would have been daunted because he was so remarkable in that movie.”
JJ Abrams
“Capote was an enormously and dangerously ambitious, talented, conflicted guy who really concealed himself from the public. He was at once a very public figure and a very private figure. And this is a movie that sort of peels back the public mask and gets into the heart of darkness.”
Bennett Miller
“(Capote) got everything he wanted. He got absolutely everything he wanted, and in so doing, he destroyed himself.”
“I don't think Capote knew exactly what he was setting himself up for. He said later if he'd known what was going to happen, he would have driven right through the town like a bat out of hell.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman
“[Capote never taped his subjects or even took notes — he boasted that he had 94% recall, often teasing Clarke for recording his interviews with him. The tapes came in handy. Hoffman would listen to Capote's distinctive voice before each day of shooting. When I saw the critic Rex Reed, who knew Capote, at a screening here, I asked him for an appraisal of Hoffman's portrayal.] I had some problems with his accent — it was like he was talking with two fingers on his tongue, ... But he got that thing Truman did with his eye right. He was always rubbing it. So I guess it was pretty close.”
Rex Reed
“It's a movie about the author, Truman Capote,”
Douglas McGrath
“Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.”
Rich Little
