Benicio Del Toro has compared talking to Martin Scorsese to meeting with the Star Wars Jedi Master Yoda.

The Wolfman actor told ShortList that he was still looking forward to working with the director, despite their planned project being delayed until 2011.

Del Toro said: "It would be a dream to work with Scorsese. Silence, the film we were going to do, has been pushed back but that's definitely something that I'm really looking forward to.

"Every time I talk to him, it's like the same as meeting with Yoda."

Of his own ambitions beyond acting, he added: "I know much more about movies and acting than when I was 20. I do want to explore other things in the film world, [like] telling people what to do.

"I usually get told what to do. I'd like to try to direct something, to tell a story. And I'd like to produce some more."