Hopkins has an art exhibition in San Antonio, Texas in May

"I'm also tired of the camera moving all over the place, with car chases so cut and edited you don't know what's happening," he told the Radio Times.

"Audiences aren't so mindless as movie-makers think," he continued.

But the 68-year-old, now a US citizen, said he had no plans to return to the stage, calling it "monotonous".

"I admire actors who can do it, and I'm sure they have a great life, but I can't stay in any one place for too long," he said.

Be polite, treat the crew with respect and don't think you're different Sir Anthony Hopkins

"I have better interests than sitting in [London restaurant] Le Caprice talking about the problems of being an actor."

The Welsh-born star, who was given a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes in January, also had some harsh words for some of his recent co-stars.

"I recently worked with two actors who wouldn't come out of their trailers for some reason. Can you figure that out? Or they complain because their trailers aren't big enough.

"It's a job, like any other, so don't make a big deal. Be polite, treat the crew with respect and don't think you're different."

The actor's latest film, The World's Fastest Indian, casts him as Burt Munro, a real-life New Zealander who broke the land-speed record for a 950cc bike in 1967.

The World's Fastest Indian casts him as a real-life record breaker

"He's different from any of my other characters," said Hopkins, who won an Oscar in 1992 for playing serial killer Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.

"I've played these weirdos, I enjoyed them, but this was easier."

The film reunites him with director Roger Donaldson, with whom he had a stormy relationship while filming The Bounty in 1983.

"He was waiting for me to be awkward, but I've changed so much, put my impatience behind me," he said.

"I've worked with directors who are tyrannical and sadistic, but no longer. I'd rather do something else."

That "something else" includes painting. According to the Radio Times, Hopkins has an art exhibition in May in San Antonio, Texas.

Earlier this year more than 100 of his pen-and-ink landscapes were sold to benefit a local literacy programme.