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I believe that when people experience an event as a community, it can transcend and change people's lives.
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I've been on stage and been an actor for many years and used different mediums.
Andy Serkis
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I have a company in the U.K., a performance-capture studio. We're looking to push the boundaries of performance-capture technology in film and video games, but also in live theater, using real-time performance capture with actors onstage, and combining that with holographic imagery.
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The great thing about performance capture is you can go off, and then, without changing costume, you can become another character.
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I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.
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Just being an ape is a workout.
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I think the actors in 'Greystoke' were amazing. They had a really good performance coach called Peter Elliott who's, of his time, one of the greatest simian performance coaches for actors.
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You'll very rarely find that you can enhance a performance to give it a real emotional centre and truth... after the fact.
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I've done a lot of films that are purely live-action roles, and even if I hadn't come across performance capture as a technology, I think I'd always consider myself a sort of mercurial actor.
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I'm in the early stages of a film called 'Freezing Time' about Eadweard Muybridge, the Victorian photographer who was really the forefather of cinema. Digital animators still treat his images like the Bible. He was a very obsessed man.
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Gorillas are still wild creatures. That's made very clear when you observe them in nature. They charge and perform other displays that are terrifying by design. But they don't attack unless they feel threatened.
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Motion capture is exactly what it says: it's physical moves, whereas performance capture is the entire performance - including your facial performance. If you're doing, say, martial arts for a video game, that is motion capture. This is basically another way of recording an actor's performance: audio, facial and physical.
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I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.
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Gollum is my picture of Dorian Gray. He will be with me for the rest of life, and I will grow to look more like him as I get older.
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Gollum has a weak personality and isn't able to cope with the power of the ring.
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I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood.
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I stayed in Baghdad every summer until I was 14. My dad's sister is still there, but many of my relatives have managed to get out. People forget that there are still people there who are not radicalized in any particular direction, trying to live normal lives in a very difficult situation.
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You never really know why you become an actor: it's a visceral thing, an emotional thing.
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I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.
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Mountaineering has always been a huge hobby of mine.
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Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.
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In 'Tintin,' it's like a live-action role. You're living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emotional arc. In an animated movie, it's a committee decision. There are 50 people creating that character. You're responsible for a small part.
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Gollum's never really gone too far away from me because he's indelibly kind of printed into my DNA now, I think.
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I think I'd like to be a lion tamer, actually. That - that would provide the most audience entertainment if something went really badly.
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