Dustin Hoffman thinks the film industry is the “worst” it has been in 50 years.
The actor recently criticized the pressure directors have to face in this new modern era of filmmaking. Nowadays, directors are forced to film major motion pictures in a shorter amount of time which, according to Hoffman, has made television better than feature films.
“I think right now, television is the best that’s it ever been, and I think it’s the worst that film has ever been – in the 50 years that I’ve been doing it, it’s the worst,” he said in an interview with U.K. newspaper The Independent.
“It’s hard to believe you can do good work for the little amount of money these days,” he said. “We 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.”
Dustin Hoffman recently made his directorial debut in 2012 with ‘Quartet’, the British comedy-drama starring Maggie Smith and Billy Connelly, Hoffman added that he hadn’t found another project to work on yet.
“I’m looking at everything that comes to me, I’m not getting much as far as directing is concerned,” he said. “I don’t think that has anything to do with whether you are good or not, it’s just about whether your films make money or not.”
