Quotes About Andy Serkis

Working with and collaborating with and for Peter Jackson was an incredible experience because he is such a phenomenal filmmaker.

I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.

For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology.

I've done a lot of films that are purely live-action roles, and even if I hadn't come across performance capture as a technology, I think I'd always consider myself a sort of mercurial actor.

Games aren't going to go away. BAFTA's got a category for games as an art form. The Academy should think about that, too.

If 'The Hobbit' happens - and there's reason to believe that it will - then I think I'm in with a chance! Gollum is very much part of 'The Hobbit,' after all.

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.

I think the actors in 'Greystoke' were amazing. They had a really good performance coach called Peter Elliott who's, of his time, one of the greatest simian performance coaches for actors.

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.

'How To Train your Dragon 2' is an amazing film. I think it's an extraordinary film. The animation in it is fantastic.

I love playing real characters... if they're not around anymore it's helpful because you won't get sued! But there's so much research involved and I love that part of the process.

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.

If it was a great script and a great character, I would love to do a romantic comedy.

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.

I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood.

You know who I was most nervous to meet, probably? Andy Serkis. I am such a huge fan.

As soon as you do it, actors realize there is no difference playing a performance-captured role or a live-action role.

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.

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.