The actor criticized the pressure on directors to have shorter film shoots, saying that “right now, television is the best that\u2019s it ever been.”<\/p>\n
Two-time Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman criticized the current state of cinema, saying it\u2019s at the lowest point it has been in the half a century that he has been working.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think right now, television is the best that it’s ever been, and I think it\u2019s the worst that film has ever been \u2014 in the 50 years that I\u2019ve been doing it, it\u2019s the worst,\u201d he said in an interview with U.K. newspaper The Independent.<\/p>\n
Hoffman\u2019s cinematic issues appear to stem from the increasing financial demands on directors to complete their films more quickly, pressures he says weren\u2019t there when he first started out in the industry.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s hard to believe you can do good work for the little amount of money these days,\u201d he said. \u201cWe did The Graduate and that film still sustains. It had a wonderful script that they spent three years on, and an exceptional director with an exceptional cast and crew, but it was a small movie, four walls and actors, and yet it was 100 days of shooting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Having made his directorial debut in 2012 with Quartet, the British comedy-drama starring Maggie Smith and Billy Connelly, Hoffman added that he hadn\u2019t yet found another project to sink his teeth into.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m looking at everything that comes to me, I\u2019m not getting much as far as directing is concerned,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t think that has anything to do with whether you are good or not, it\u2019s just about whether your films make money or not.\u201d<\/p>\n
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