Actors' performances do not stand alone in any film, live action or whatever. — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
As soon as you do it, actors realize there is no difference playing a performance-captured role or a live-action role. — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance. — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Actors' performances in films are enhanced in a million different ways, down to the choice of camera shot by the director -… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
But that's not what an actor does. An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Performance capture is a genre of acting which is not going to go away, it's going to proliferate more and more. I'm… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don't necessarily look like themselves. And yet… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
In terms of animation, animators are actors as well. They are fantastic actors. They have to draw from how they feel emotionally… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
A lot of actors on film sets... very often they're not paying attention to the physical world around them. I think through… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
My sons have to learn that you take the rough with the smooth and they've seen a lot of smooth in the… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Motion capture is exactly what it says: it's physical moves, whereas performance capture is the entire performance - including your facial performance.… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
it's a weird thing with acting and it happens to a lot of actors, not just myself - it's like you're giving… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I was thinking about that. I was thinking, this is like our Boyhood; this is like our getting together over 12 years… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
At the moment, my trajectory isn't to think about acting. I'm absolutely devoted to The Imaginarium, our projects and directing. And watching… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
In a personal way, to do with family and the father-son relationship, in a kind of artistic way with regard to him… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Working with people you adore and love. There's just a sense, all the way through all of the movies [Planet of Apes],… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Animators do amazing working translating and interpolating the characters [in the Planet of the apes], the facial performances. What we're creating on… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
It's a different rhythm than most movies. For a lot of the actors, you're 12,000 miles away from home. It becomes a… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I think what traditional studios probably don't understand is that it's a genuine advancement in the actor's tradition. And you know, the… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Great actors like Willem Dafoe and Ellen Page and Samuel L. Jackson will go and do a videogame, because they understand that… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I think the actors in 'Greystoke' were amazing. They had a really good performance coach called Peter Elliott who's, of his time,… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
The matter is - we are actors playing roles [in Planet Apes] and they happen to be in this instance apes but… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
In a personal way, to do with family and the father-son relationship, in a kind of artistic way with regard to him being an… — Andy Serkis Copy Share
Hoodwink is a product of his environment. He grew up in Belfast, he was part of the UDA and he fought for what he… — Andy Serkis Copy Share
Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you say. It's… — Andy Serkis Copy Share
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… — Andy Serkis Copy Share
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… — Andy Serkis Copy Share
I do love nature, but I don't suppose I'd spent more time in zoos as a child than anyone else! — Andy Serkis Copy Share
When you start to do research into gorillas or any kind of apes, if you're going to play them, that's one of the biggest… — Andy Serkis Copy Share
I remember once, I read in a horoscope, because I'm an Aries, I read this terrible thing, which really affected me, which said, "You… — Andy Serkis Copy Share
It's really up to the acting community to be willing to be educated about what performance capture is in order to fully appreciate it… — Andy Serkis Copy Share
I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now. — Andy Serkis Copy Share
Rather than something like King Kong where I really went after studying gorillas in the wild and captivity. I based Caesar [ from the… — Andy Serkis Copy Share
On lower budget things you're still working collaboratively, but the investment and your level of creative importance is higher on something like this. — Andy Serkis Copy Share
Gollum is entirely based on the notion of addiction. The way that the ring pervades him, makes him craving, lustful, depletes him physically, psychologically… — Andy Serkis Copy Share
![“Working with people you adore and love. There's just a sense, all the way through all of the movies [Planet of Apes], that you're very rarely in a position where you have great material that you're passionate about and a big audience who love it, and the detail and nuance, and the exquisiteness of…” quote by Andy Serkis](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a58/andy-serkis-1548_actors_working-with-people-you-adore-and-love-t_1016696.jpg)
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