Andy Serkis Quotes
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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'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 play saxophone, I play tenor sax.
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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 think I have a lot of internal energy, which does need to come out.
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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 believe that when people experience an event as a community, it can transcend and change people's lives.
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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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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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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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You don't really think about 3D when you're acting. As a director, you do.
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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 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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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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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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I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood.
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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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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'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.
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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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Just being an ape is a workout.
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Mountaineering has always been a huge hobby of mine.
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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.