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DUSTIN HOFFMAN once turned down a role offered to him by MARTIN SCORSESE because he thought the filmmaker was "crazy".
The Graduate actor was approached by the director to star in the now classic film Taxi Driver - but rejected the part because he was alarmed by the strange antics of 65-year-old Scorsese.
Hoffman, 71, says, "I remember meeting Martin Scorsese. He had no script and I didn’t even know who he was. I hadn’t seen any of his films and he talked a mile a minute telling me what the movie would be about. "I was thinking, ‘What is he talking about?’ I thought the guy was crazy! The film was Taxi Driver. I made so many dumb mistakes (turning down hit movies).
The list is endless."

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