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 differe….

People think, 'Oh, well how can 'The Hobbit,' which is one book, become three films?' But you can take one line from an appendice and it turns into a….

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 chara….

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 le….

A lot of actors on film sets... very often they're not paying attention to the physical world around them. I think through studying art, I've always ….

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 po….

Performance capture is a genre of acting which is not going to go away, it's going to proliferate more and more. I'm passionate about it, and I love ….

I'm definitely moving more towards directing now..

Gollum is Gollum - though in 'Lord of the Rings' he's 600 years old and in 'The Hobbit' he's 540, so he looks a little bit more handsome..

That's why I ended up going to Lancaster University, because they had a visual arts course, and in the first year it was like a broad visual arts cou….

I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects..

People are mystified by it and so they kind of think, the acting community thinks they're gonna be replaced by CG characters and animators think they….

I love the whole kind of notion of transformation for me is (what) excites me about not only acting, but storytelling. I love, I love that notion of ….

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 - bu….

I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years..