Is he a nice person?

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I've read he's difficult to work with, but I always take that with a grain of salt. Anyone can run across a celebrity on a bad day and label them as "difficult."

In the early 70s my sister (a teen) had a big crush on him and had drawn some pictures of him. She sent them to him and he sent back an encouraging letter and a bunch of autographed pictures. A real letter, handwritten etc.

He took the time for a kid - not a sick kid or a photo op situation kid - which seems to me to be a nice guy.

Aside from being "difficult" to work with - you don't hear about him trashing hotels or throwing cell phones at assistants. I don't think he rates high on the Jerk Meter.

Not long before Elizabeth Wilson died I read an interview where she said that Hoffman was kind during the making of THE GRADUATE, but once he became a star told her that he couldn't hang around with nobodies anymore.

I don't know if that story is true or not. But there are others who got along well with him like Susan Sarandon;

“I was surprised how sweet he is. There was no vying for position, and that is not necessarily typical. He was the antithesis of the alpha male. I didn't ever get Dustin spraying his ground. Despite all the sexual innuendo he's always throwing around, he is very respectful. After all these years, he still loves the process.”

Jake Gyllenhaal and Cate Olson enjoyed working with him. Hoffman is an actor who likes to push himself to the limit. This has created some tension with coworkers [Marthe Keller comes to mind]. Hoffman sees it differently and claims he is not difficult, “`Difficult'?” he asks. “Or `meticulous'? Maybe they are one in the same.”

Fantastic. Actors - true ones such as him - must experience intimately a large array of emotions and thoughts strange to most people not only in number but nature as well at times, that tends to diminish egos and enhance what is best, our humane - not merely 'human' - qualities. Adorable to hear good things about people who make good people (on screen, theater or written pieces).

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Watch the making of Death of a Salesman where he actually argues with Arthur Miller about why they should change a scene... Really... arguing with Arthur Miller.

Dustin Hoffman came off as extremely annoying in that and I believe he probably is still. However, he's a fantastic actor and it doesn't' make him a bad person. Just kind of annoying.

Did they (change it)?

I don't see why he shouldn't.

I saw that film way back, I believe I liked it a lot, incidentally.

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yes they did change it. It was something very inconsequential and I think Arthur Miller and the director just gave up arguing with him. It was random, like some mood swing he (Dustin) was having and just decided to latch on to this tiny little aspect and try to get it changed. It made little sense.