After 'Kong,' my knuckles have never recovered because I had to wear very heavy weights on my forearms and around my hips and ankles to get the sense….

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 ….

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 ….

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 me….

And 'Sex Drugs Rock Roll' was a very transitional film for me in that I was one of the producers and you know, came up with the idea with the writer ….

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

Basically we're puppeteers and if you're there and you're in the character, the puppet is going to look good. It's going to breath life and I think o….

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 in….

My belief about performance capture is that it's a technology which allows actors to play extraordinary characters. But from an acting perspective, I….

I never felt totally, 100%, patriotically English... I'd seen a lot of the world by an early age - sort of spent a lot of time traveling around Leban….

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….

I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects. So Peter's known that I've been heading to….

At the moment, my trajectory isn't to think about acting. I'm absolutely devoted to The Imaginarium, our projects and directing. And watching and ena….

I'm working from home a lot. That's very unusual because I'm away a lot, sometimes working on the other side of the world for long periods of time. S….

The learning curve is 'The Hobbit' is being shot in 3D..

The difference between the big budget films I've done is the length of time. But in terms of the day-to-day, you're still going on to set, you're get….

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me..

'The Hobbit' was one of the first biggish books I ever read. I remember vividly the 'riddles in the dark' passage, and it meant a lot to me to finall….

I've done a fair amount of that stuff... when we did 'Lord of the Rings' the transformation sequence from Smeagol to Gollum was a 19-hour make-up job….

Be magnificent. Life’s short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone..

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….