Actor and director Dustin Hoffman has some gripes about the modern film industry and isn't afraid to voice them. In a recent interview with The Independent, Hoffman said that cinema is the worst it's ever been
"I think right now television is the best that it's ever been and I think that it's the worst that film has ever been - in the 50 years that I've been doing it, it's the worst," he told the U.K. newspaper.
"The Graduate" also star talked about the pressures that are felt by directors and film crews to film movies as fast as possible, some in just 20 days, according to the Independent. The only films that have the luxury of filming for longer than 20 days are the comic book adaptations or robot movies. Hoffman explained that these limitations didn't exist when he first started out in Hollywood.
"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, that is all, and yet it was 100 days of shooting."
Hoffman's latest acting credit, in this year's "Boychoir," has a more musical background as he plays the director of a boy choir boarding school. He told the Independent that he hasn't seen another directing slot that interested him since 2012's "Quartet."
"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."
