Andy Serkis

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'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character. ”

I've done a lot of films that are purely live-action roles, and even if I hadn't come across performance capture as a technology, I think I'd always consider myself a sort of mercurial actor. ”

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

Actors' performances do not stand alone in any film, live action or whatever. ”

I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture. ”

We've never had nannies. We've had great grandparents, great support from family, and the kids have been on every set: they've seen me play Gollum, King Kong, Captain Haddock, the lot. They totally get it, and they want to go into the business. Ruby, my daughter, is very keen to become an actress. ”

If it was a great script and a great character, I would love to do a romantic comedy. ”

Did you happen to catch the film I did between 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Kong?' It was a nice little Jennifer Garner comedy, '13 Going on 30,' and I play her boss. In my big scene, I get to moonwalk - pretty well, I thought - to Michael Jackson. ”

When you do animation - well, straightforward animation, although it's not straightforward - the voice for a character or something, they're always singular experiences, really. ”

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 whole sequence. ”