interview BILL POWERS polaroids SAM TAYLOR WOOD With an instinct for the right role and the talent to play it, PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN, has gone from strength to strength, picking up an Oscar for Capote on the way. Concurrently starring in Mike Nichol’s new film, Charlie Wilson’s War and Bennett Miller’s Eat the Document, Hoffman continues to push the envelope of the seventh art. Sixteen years before Philip Seymour Hoffman won the Academy Award for Best Actor, he and I met in New York City. I was waiting tables at a supper club near Times Square. Phil had a day job at a delicatessen on Second Avenue, but caught a break and landed a small part in Scent of a Woman, his first taste of Hollywood. He remembers looking at a wall calendar with his boss at the deli and marking down the day he’d be returning to work. Now…