Andy Serkis Quotes
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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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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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It has been great portraying Gollum, but it will be great to see my face on screen for a change.
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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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I guess I just tend to feel at home wherever I go.
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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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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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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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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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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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I enjoy high-speed about-turns in thought.
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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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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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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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When you have children, you realize that at the end, it's all about passing on, about handing down.
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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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The thing is, I don't just take roles because they're performance capture.
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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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Actors' performances do not stand alone in any film, live action or whatever.
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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.