Andy Serkis Quotes
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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'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 has a weak personality and isn't able to cope with the power of the ring.
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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.
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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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Nowadays, there's no such thing as a stable job.
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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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My livelihood depends on the art of animators.
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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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I think there will always be a particular generation of actors who... think that they're going to be replaced by robots. But certainly the emerging actors... understand that that's part of the craft.
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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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Mountaineering has always been a huge hobby of mine.
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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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You don't really think about 3D when you're acting. As a director, you do.
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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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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'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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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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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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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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I grew up with 'Star Wars' and was a massive fan of the original films.
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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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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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People used to say, 'Andy Serkis lent his movements to Gollum,' and now they say, 'Andy Serkis played Caesar.' That's a significant leap.