Andy Serkis Quotes
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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 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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There's a huge gulf between people who can afford to go to drama school and those who can't.
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Mountaineering has always been a huge hobby of mine.
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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 fact of the matter is I have done so many parts.
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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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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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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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Originally, I thought, 'Gollum's such a fantastic character, why are you doing him CG? Surely you need to be able to humanise him as much as possible - he's so full of pathos and real emotion.'
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Just being an ape is a workout.
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I understand why people went nuts for 'The Artist.' We use words so much, it's nice to be able to explore a different way of communication, to be able to express silently what someone - or something - is thinking or feeling.
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Recently I read that half the world or more has read 'The Lord of The Rings,' but then I found out that something like 75 per cent of the world knows the 'Tintin' books.
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I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characters I play, or is it me growing as a human being?'
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When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.
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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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Gollum was so interesting to me because he's morally ambivalent, and I love the notion of a quest that is to lose something. Not to gain, but to get rid of something.
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What's fantastic is that there's a real growing appreciation for performance-capture technology as a tool for acting.
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Be magnificent. Life's short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.
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The reason that some motion-capture films don't work is if the scripts are not good, and the characters aren't engaging, then you don't believe in the journey, and you're not connected to it. It's not the technology's fault.
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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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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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For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology.
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I had a cat called Dizz, after Dizzy Gillespie.