Andy Serkis Quotes
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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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It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own.
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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 love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.
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I think I have a lot of internal energy, which does need to come out.
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Nowadays, there's no such thing as a stable job.
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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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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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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 wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.
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People think, 'Oh, well how can 'The Hobbit,' which is one book, become three films?' But you can take one line from an appendice and it turns into a whole sequence.
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If you are not moved by the character, no amount of CGI will give you a performance that is emotionally engaging or devastating - what a live-action performance does.
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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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You don't really think about 3D when you're acting. As a director, you do.
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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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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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In terms of animation, animators are actors as well. They are fantastic actors. They have to draw from how they feel emotionally about the beat of a scene that they're working on. They work collaboratively.
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I've been told that some guy wrote something like, 'Andy Serkis does everything, animators do nothing.' Of course I never in a million years said that, wouldn't ever say that. It's not within my understanding of filmmaking to ever say anything like that.
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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 already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.
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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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My livelihood depends on the art of animators.
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Mountaineering has always been a huge hobby of mine.
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Gollum has a weak personality and isn't able to cope with the power of the ring.