Andy Serkis Quotes
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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.
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The fact of the matter is I have done so many parts.
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I do love nature, but I don't suppose I'd spent more time in zoos as a child than anyone else!
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Just being an ape is a workout.
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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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My take is that acting is acting. A performance is a performance. With performance capture, if you don't get the performance on the day, you can't enhance the performance.
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I guess I just tend to feel at home wherever I go.
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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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When I'm working on the scripts or working with the other actors or rehearsing with the director, and when the director is cutting the movie, and we've shot the scene, the director is not looking at the visual effects.
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I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to do.
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The thing is, I don't just take roles because they're performance capture.
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Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.
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Performance capture, for me, is finding the essence of a performance.
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Everybody thinks performance capture is about thrashing around and doing a lots of movement, but it's actually about being able to contain and think and be believed in a close-up, as much as anything else.
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Did you happen to catch the film I did between 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Kong?' It was a nice little Jennifer Garner comedy, '13 Going on 30,' and I play her boss. In my big scene, I get to moonwalk - pretty well, I thought - to Michael Jackson.
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But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude.
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I've always been really in touch with my primal instincts. In my profession, you have to be.
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When you have children, you realize that at the end, it's all about passing on, about handing down.
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Actors' performances do not stand alone in any film, live action or whatever.
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I enjoy high-speed about-turns in thought.
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In the same way 'Lord of the Rings' was an interpretation of the book, 'The Hobbit' is being treated the same way. It will be faithfully represented with a fresh interpretation.
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J.J. Abrams is an all-time hero of mine, really lovely to be working with him.
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When you do animation - well, straightforward animation, although it's not straightforward - the voice for a character or something, they're always singular experiences, really.
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You could go so wrong with a 'Planet of the Apes' reboot; you could make it melodramatic, you could make it campy, you could fall into so many traps with it.