SUBMITTED BY katystarlet

September 23, 2002 — In an interview with MovieHole, Hopkins confided that he is 'divorced' from acting. I live in Los Angeles, but never read the trades so I dont know whats going on and Im very removed from it and really removed from the business of acting. I trust that my agent is going to come up with a script every so often, and he does. I have lunch with him once every six weeks maybe and we talk on the phone and thats my connection with Hollywood, confesses Hopkins. And I love that, but I just dont have it in my nature to become part of an acting community. I dont have actors as friends. I like actors, but I dont hang out with any so Im physically and mentally detached, and always have been. Even while acting in London, I never hung out with actors. One or two friends were actors, but Im completely divorced from it all.

But Sir Hopkins has no intention of becoming a director either:

simplicity, directness and clarity, intention within scenes, which I enjoy; it brings out some kind of director in me, but I have no desire to be a director. While he has directed before, no more, he insists, Because Im an actor. You have to be up first thing in the morning to be a director, and the last to leave the set at night. An actors life is easy compared to the other one. I directed one film and they said the most exciting part is the editing. I went into the editing room and after two days, I thought Id go insane. I couldnt look at those scenes anymore. They said this is the new high tech equipment, the new video splicing machine. They said, Go to frame 46. To which I replied You do it.

To read more about Red Dragon & why Hopkins has agreed to do another one in the series, check out the link below: