Latest Andy Serkis Quotes from Interviews

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• My belief about performance capture is that it's a technology which allows actors to play extraordinary characters. But from an acting perspective, I've never drawn a distinction between playing a conventional, live action character and playing a role in a performance capture suit. And from a purely acting point-of-view, I don't believe there should be a special Oscar category because I think it sort of muddies the waters in a way.

  Andy Serkis

  Believe, Character, Technology

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

• 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 as acting. It's not a type of acting, but rather the use of technology to harness an actor's performance and translate it into an ape, another animal, or an avatar of some kind.

  Andy Serkis

  Technology, Animal, Appreciate

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

• We're live in a world that has, in many ways, become desensitized and unable to empathize with other cultures and species. The dangerous part is that we objectify others and have somehow removed ourselves, mentally, from the very planet we inhabit.

  Andy Serkis

  World, Culture, Dangerous

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

• Where as you go into playing something like Ulysses [on Black Panther], you go - I'm going to have this haircut and this cloth, you draw from different stimulus.

  Andy Serkis

  Black, Different, Panthers

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

• You don't go - oh this is a motion capture role, I'm going to employ this method of acting. We don't have anything to hide behind when we're doing this.

  Andy Serkis

  Acting, Roles, Capture

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

• it's a weird thing with acting and it happens to a lot of actors, not just myself - it's like you're giving off an I really need to be loved today vibe. My worst moment recently is I fell asleep on the tube in London on the Victoria line 8:30 in the morning and I woke up and there were about five people with iPhones taking pictures.

  Andy Serkis

  Morning, Iphone, Worst Moments

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

• When you come out of the other end of a long process, working with a character [you realize] this character has really shaped my ideas.

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Ideas, Long

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

• Caesar [from the Rise of the Planet of the Apes] was brought up with human beings and because of the drug he had pretty much grown up with his whole life, he felt like an outsider, he felt trapped in an ape's body but he didn't really feel like an ape and that was my way into the character. So he's always had this duality playing him from an infant all the way to now as a fifty-five year old ape.

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Years, Drug

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

• Rather than something like King Kong where I really went after studying gorillas in the wild and captivity. I based Caesar [ from the Rise of the Planet of the Apes] on a real chimpanzee and I worked with Terry [Notary] on a lot of chimpanzee movement.

  Andy Serkis

  Kings, Real, Captivity

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

• When I first was offered the role on Rise [of the Planet of the Apes], I always played Caesar as a human being within ape skin.

  Andy Serkis

  Skins, Roles, Apes

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

• There is always that potential in the same way - Roddy McDowall ended up playing Cornelius to Caesar [in the Planet of the Apes]. Two different characters. That's the joy of the craft. Bring it on I say.

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Two, Joy

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

• I just directed The Jungle Book with Cate Blanchet and Christian Bale.

  Andy Serkis

  Christian, Book, Jungle Book

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

• Animators do amazing working translating and interpolating the characters [in the Planet of the apes], the facial performances. What we're creating on set - if you don't get it on the day, in the moment, on set, in front of the camera, with the director and the actors. The emotional content of the scene and the acting choices.

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Emotional, Creating

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

• There's this whole grey area seemingly every time it's talked about animators and who takes ultimate responsibility for the characters [of the Planet of the apes] but without question and I'll go down saying this year after year, these characters are authored by what we do on set. They are not authored by animators.

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Responsibility, Years

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

• The process of acting is no different [playing human or ape]. You're embodying the character. You're creating the psychology and the physicality. You're living the moment.

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Creating, Psychology

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

• The matter is - we are actors playing roles [in Planet Apes] and they happen to be in this instance apes but there's no difference. In the scenes that we're playing, if we were to block out the scenes as actors in costumes, it would be no different.

  Andy Serkis

  Block, Differences, Different

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

• 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 the fantastic actors and director with great writing.

  Andy Serkis

  Writing, People, And Love

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

• It's a really unique situation where you just - you make independent films or you make big blockbuster movies, but it's very rare when all of those ingredients come together, and you can really tell a story that you care about with a character you absolutely love with the people you love making movies with.

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Independent, Unique

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

• I was thinking about that. I was thinking, this is like our Boyhood; this is like our getting together over 12 years to make - this our Apehood! I mean, this is it! For me, the relationships, all of those things, over such a long period of time now with actors, but also seeing the characters grow, develop, and change, and go through different situations.

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

• 35mm film isn't ticking away so it's subconscious - performances are allowed to breathe in a much more real way I think.

  Andy Serkis

  Real, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I suppose the biggest strain was that Hoodwink is a high-octane character and he's up there like all the time. Once he's on his journey there's no let up for the man, so I actually found it a massively exhausting job to keep that level up.

  Andy Serkis

  Jobs, Character, Journey

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• What I'm saying is people like Hoodwink are not kind of evil villains, they're part of humanity. We can choose to disassociate ourselves from them and we can choose to pretend they're not there, but they are. We're all together in this.

  Andy Serkis

  People, Evil, Humanity

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I think we can be very narrow-minded in this country; you see something that someone's done and immediately want them to do the same thing again - but if they don't, they're criticised for not doing the same thing again, but if they do they're just repeating themselves.

  Andy Serkis

  Country, Thinking, Done

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Hoodwink is a product of his environment. He grew up in Belfast, he was part of the UDA and he fought for what he believed in - or was brainwashed into believing - because of the people that surrounded him.

  Andy Serkis

  Believe, People, Environment

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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

  Creative, Levels, Investment

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk