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thenewgreen · 4707 days ago · link · · parent · post: Dustin Hoffman: "You can't do your best work within the studio system"
This is the classic struggle between art and business. Their motivations should run parallel but for some reason, they don't. Why haven't the financiers grasped that the best products yield the "best" returns? Because they are not interested in the "best" anything, they are interested in the "safest". They find comfort in formula not innovation. I applaud HBO for "bucking" this trend, in doing so they have been wildly successful and have produced some of the best TV in a generation. Nolte and Hoffman? Sounds like interesting casting, I'm in.