Andy Serkis

I've always been a huge fan of Charles Lawton's performance in 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame,' so somewhere along the line, I've always wanted to play that character. ”

The great thing about performance capture is you can go off, and then, without changing costume, you can become another character. ”

In performance capture roles, it's not a committee of animators that author the role, it's the actor. I think that's a significant thing for people to understand. ”

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

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. ”

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 enhance the performance. ”

Motion capture is exactly what it says: it's physical moves, whereas performance capture is the entire performance - including your facial performance. If you're doing, say, martial arts for a video game, that is motion capture. This is basically another way of recording an actor's performance: audio, facial and physical. ”

Middle-earth is a universe I know very well. ”

My father was interested in justice, always working for people who needed to be supported. ”

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded. ”