JONAH HILL - HILL CREDITS HOFFMAN FOR BIG BREAK

SUPERBAD star JONAH HILL credits DUSTIN HOFFMAN for giving him his big break after impressing the Hollywood legend at a poetry session. The funnyman was at an open mic poetry night when he was spotted by Hoffman - who promptly put him in 2004's I Heart Huckabees. Hill says, "There was this bar in New York that did open-mic poetry but they were all super serious and dark. I found them funny so I'd write fake poems but pretend they were real. "Dustin saw them, liked them, said he's put me in a movie. And he did."