When you have children, you realize that at the end, it's all about passing on, about handing down. — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I have a road bike and a mountain bike, and I tend to use them both a lot. They help you keep… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I think acting really helps as a director. It's just no question, because you totally understand the acting process. — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I've always been really in touch with my primal instincts. In my profession, you have to be. — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
You'll very rarely find that you can enhance a performance to give it a real emotional centre and truth... after the fact. — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
You don't really think about 3D when you're acting. As a director, you do. — 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
You could go so wrong with a 'Planet of the Apes' reboot; you could make it melodramatic, you could make it campy,… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Gorillas are still wild creatures. That's made very clear when you observe them in nature. They charge and perform other displays that… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Originally, I thought, 'Gollum's such a fantastic character, why are you doing him CG? Surely you need to be able to humanise… — 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
Gorillas have a belch vocalization, which is sort of like, 'I'm OK, you're OK.' They do a pig grunt, which is reprimanding.… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Over the years, people have asked me, 'Do you think there should be a separate category for acting in the digital realm?… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
If you are not moved by the character, no amount of CGI will give you a performance that is emotionally engaging or… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Did you happen to catch the film I did between 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Kong?' It was a nice little Jennifer… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, 'God, they don't paint behind the sets.' It's a bit of a shame,… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
The process of performance capture really is transparent now. We're not having to shoot in special areas with performance capture cameras all… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
After 'Kong,' my knuckles have never recovered because I had to wear very heavy weights on my forearms and around my hips… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
You can't just come up with an idea for a game and stick the drama on top. It all has to be… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
The great thing about performance capture is you can go off, and then, without changing costume, you can become another character. — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
You never really know why you become an actor: it's a visceral thing, an emotional thing. — 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
People find it hard to get their heads around nominating a computer-generated character, but every time you see Gollum on the screen,… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
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… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
When you do animation - well, straightforward animation, although it's not straightforward - the voice for a character or something, they're always… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
My take is that acting is acting. A performance is a performance. With performance capture, if you don't get the performance on… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
My natural bent is to have an overabundance of energy, and motion-capture essentializes your every breath, your every move. Seeing yourself through… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that an actor, if I'm playing a performance capture role and you're playing a live action… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment.… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I'm a Mac user. I think it depends on how you were brought up, and I was introduced to Apple quite early.… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
People will come up to me and try and be secretive and say, 'Can you do the Gollum voice for me?' And… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
What's wonderful about Tolkien and Shakespeare is that they show up your own individual microscope. They're so infinitely vast. You can reinterpret… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
If you're in a motion-capture studio, you have spherical, reflective markers, which are picked up by cameras that emit infrared - it… — 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
