(The) process of acting is no different to conventional screen acting, in that it's providing a perfect interface between the director and the perfor….

I can get on with all different sorts of people, and I never feel homesick, particularly, or I've never felt kind of patriotic towards any one countr….

Not a day goes by where I'm not reminded of Gollum by some person in the street who asks me to do his voice or wants to talk to me about him. But bec….

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….

My first job when I got my equity card was acting in 14 plays back-to-back. Playing that many roles, you look for ways of differentiating the charact….

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 tha….

Yeah, I mean, climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I've had family, but no, it's been a driving passio….

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 not going away..

That's what I think is the biggest challenge, is just being still and learning how to just be present in that stillness and not over do it, not over ….

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

What's wonderful about Tolkien and Shakespeare is that they show up your own individual microscope. They're so infinitely vast. You can reinterpret t….

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..

I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now..

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 i….

Gorillas are still wild creatures. That's made very clear when you observe them in nature. They charge and perform other displays that are terrifying….

In 'Tintin,' it's like a live-action role. You're living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emo….

Working from home is so, so hard because I want to be present for them and yet there's so much to do work-wise. That's the biggest challenge for me..

I understand why people went nuts for 'The Artist.' We use words so much, it's nice to be able to explore a different way of communication, to be abl….

On lower budget things you're still working collaboratively, but the investment and your level of creative importance is higher on something like thi….

I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood..

My sons have to learn that you take the rough with the smooth and they've seen a lot of smooth in the years that they've been around. They didn't see….