After four decades in Hollywood, Anthony Hopkins decided it was finally time to make a film under his own terms. The result was the deeply personal film "Slipstream," an art house picture ripped from the actor's subconscious. Often barraging the viewer with a calvacade of quick cuts, spliced-in stock footage and a timeline that jumps in and out of continuity, "Slipstream" tells the tale of a screenwriter (played by Hopkins) who is living in both the real world and a fictional one inhabited by his own characters.

In an exclusive interview with MTV News, Hopkins -- who wrote, directed and composed "Slipstream" -- describes how he views the film, his issues with California new-agers and the skinny on his upcoming biopic of legendary auteur Alfred Hitchcock.

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Watch out Dan Fogler, there's another guy itching to play Alfred Hitchcock in a film and while this one didn't make an appearance in "Balls of Fury," he does have a few fans out there. He scared the crap out of Clarice Starling and everyone else, so why not Anthony Hopkins as the master of suspense?

Reports earlier this year indicated that the Oscar winner might play Hitchcock in a film for "Running with Scissors" director Ryan Murphy and now Hopkins has confirmed the news to us. And not only that, but Hopkins went into great detail, describing the opening of the film (which will detail the making of "Psycho") and even giving us a peek at what his Hitchcock will sound like! Check it out below!