Andy Serkis Quotes
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I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, 'God, they don't paint behind the sets.' It's a bit of a shame, really - 'Oh, what's on the other side of this wall? Oh, you can see the plywood.' I was really disappointed. I just thought that these things were real, from watching things as a kid.
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I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood.
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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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When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.
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I think when actors run away from their work that they're slightly crazy, really!
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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 think that Gollum is really the character who is a very human character, and he's very flawed, like most humans are, and has good and bad sides.
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I don't want to play a voice.
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The whole chameleon thing about acting. That's why I'm moving towards directing - it's a much more healthy occupation.
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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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Before I became an actor, I was a visual artist, and I've always hankered for the storytelling behind the camera.
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There's a huge gulf between people who can afford to go to drama school and those who can't.
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Britain has enormous amount of talent, as we've seen from the BAFTAs. It's all here, and it has to be allowed to flourish.
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Gorillas have a belch vocalization, which is sort of like, 'I'm OK, you're OK.' They do a pig grunt, which is reprimanding. They sing, they laugh, and they hoot, which grows into a chest-beating display.
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The wonderful thing about 48 fps is the integration of live action and CG elements; that is something I learned from 'The Hobbit.' We are so used to 24 fps and the romance of celluloid... but at 48 fps, you cannot deny the existence of these CG creations in the same time frame and space and environment as the live action.
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I think Caesar is one of the most empathetic characters that I've played. I think that's the key to a successful leadership. Being able to keep your ears open at all times.
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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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I had a cat called Dizz, after Dizzy Gillespie.
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If 'The Hobbit' happens - and there's reason to believe that it will - then I think I'm in with a chance! Gollum is very much part of 'The Hobbit,' after all.
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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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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 had to relearn how to ride a horse like an ape. I had to change how I jumped off and how I gripped them with my thighs and distribute my weight differently.
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As I started to research gorillas, I began to understand that they're all totally individual and idiosyncratic, and they have their own personalities.
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People find it hard to get their heads around nominating a computer-generated character, but every time you see Gollum on the screen, that's me who is acting up there - even if it is behind a mass of pixels - and it's my voice you hear.