Andy Serkis Quotes
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I would love to direct an 'Apes' movie. It would be in the spirit of where I'm going with my career - avatars played by actors to say something about the human condition.
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When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.
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Looking back, when I was Gollum, I suppose I did break the mold to a certain extent. I'm proud, and very thrilled, to be a part of that.
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I think when actors run away from their work that they're slightly crazy, really!
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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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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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There's a huge gulf between people who can afford to go to drama school and those who can't.
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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'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'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.
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More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.
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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 am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood.
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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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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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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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I can get on with all different sorts of people, and I never feel homesick, particularly, or I've never felt kind of patriotic towards any one country.
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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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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 have a lot of internal energy, which does need to come out.
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I don't want to play a voice.
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It has been great portraying Gollum, but it will be great to see my face on screen for a change.
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In performance capture roles, it's not a committee of animators that author the role, it's the actor. I think that's a significant thing for people to understand.
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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.