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..

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance..

I love, first of all, reading and discovering what the common perception is and then trying to figure out... well, how does your life cross over into….

[Greek] Theater started off and used masks and Kabuki, in the East, they used mask-work. And then, Commedia dell'arte in Italy and then, you know, we….

I believe that when people experience an event as a community it can transcend and change people's lives..

When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take….

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything..

Originally when I went off to work on 'The Lord of The Rings' I got a call from my agent saying that I was just going to do a voice. But I couldn't r….

But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very ….

In terms of animation, animators are actors as well. They are fantastic actors. They have to draw from how they feel emotionally about the beat of a ….

I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I….

I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characters I play, or is it me growing as a human being?'.

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 an….

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 ….

Everybody thinks performance capture is about thrashing around and doing a lots of movement, but it's actually about being able to contain and think ….

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 vi….

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….

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 will never be or….

My take is that acting is acting. A performance is a performance. With performance capture, if you don't get the performance on the day, you can't en….

There are no rhymes or reason, actually. Having said that, you know, cause there are people who are absolutely single-minded about their process and ….

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 tradition a….