Tom Hanks lacks direction

Multi Oscar winner Tom Hanks has said he will not direct any more films, as he thinks it is too much work.

12:22 09 June 2004

Multi Oscar winner Tom Hanks has said he will not direct any more films, as he thinks it is too much work.

The last film the actor directed was "That Thing You Do" in 1996. The film grossed $26 million overall, less than a third of what "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" made in its first week alone.

"I just don't have the inner drive to direct. It means working under enormous pressure for 24 months without a break. I enjoyed that on a small scale, but I wouldn't want to repeat it. I consider myself an actor first, and a producer second," Hanks said.

"My talent lies in saying 'Hey, that's interesting material - we could make a good film out of that'. And then the others should come in and do the real work," the actor added.

But the man who has won two Best Actor Academy Awards is not even satisfied with his acting performances.

"I made plenty of films in the past, such as Bonfire of the Vanities, which I would rather just forget, with the excuse that I didn't know what I was doing at the time," he said.