Dustin Hoffman has said that he regrets not becoming a director earlier in his career.
The 75-year-old director has just made his directorial debut with Quartet about four retired opera singers.
However, the two-time Academy Award winner, explained that he wishes he'd stepped behind the camera sooner.
Speaking to The Guardian Magazine, Hoffman said: ''It's one of my demons I guess. It has been until now.
''I felt I'd blown the chance. I felt somehow I wasn't allowed to direct; I'm allowed to be an actor, I'm not allowed to be a director. We all do that; we put things off because we don't feel we're entitled to do it. Unless you're one of the few who have no demons.''
Hoffman further explained that his greatest regret is not meeting Samuel Beckett to discuss making a movie together.
He added: ''At one point I was supposed to meet Samuel Beckett in a bar in Paris to do a revival of Godot, and I stood him up. I just kept walking round the block, I couldn't go in the door.''
Quartet hits cinemas nationwide on January 1.
