Quotes by Andy Serkis

Andy Serkis

‘The Hobbit’ was one of the first biggish books I ever read. I remember vividly the ‘riddles in the dark’ passage, and it meant a lot to me to finally get to play it after all these years.

Book

Dark

Years

(The) process of acting is no different to conventional screen acting, in that it’s providing a perfect interface between the director and the performer. So there’s no sort of long way around a viral committee of animators.

Acting

Long

Perfect

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 had that awareness and that’s something that I’ve wanted to bring in to go beyond acting… As a form of expression, they are intrinsically linked.

Art

Expression

Thinking

After ‘Kong,’ my knuckles have never recovered because I had to wear very heavy weights on my forearms and around my hips and ankles to get the sense of size and scale of the movement of the character You are telling your body that you are these things and that you’re feeling these thoughts and that you’re experiencing these experiences.

Ankles

Character

Feelings

And ‘Sex Drugs Rock Roll’ was a very transitional film for me in that I was one of the producers and you know, came up with the idea with the writer and the producer, as well. But, it was a very collaborative event. You know, I really love working in that way.

Ideas

Rocks

Sex

Animators do amazing working translating and interpolating the characters [in the Planet of the apes], the facial performances. What we’re creating on set – if you don’t get it on the day, in the moment, on set, in front of the camera, with the director and the actors. The emotional content of the scene and the acting choices.

Character

Creating

Emotional

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

Character

Long

Play

Basically we’re puppeteers and if you’re there and you’re in the character, the puppet is going to look good. It’s going to breath life and I think once they find out how to trust this system, you just forget about it and just perform, then it’s just second nature, it just becomes easy.

Character

Looks

Thinking

Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre.

Age

Games

People

For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don’t necessarily look like themselves. And yet you’ve still got the heart and soul of the performance.

Character

Games

Heart

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Actors

Advancement

Age

Agents

And Love

Ankles

Apes

Art

Artist

Believe

Black

Block

Book

Buttons

Capture

Casting

Challenges

Character

Climbing

Communication

Community

Country

Creating

Creative

Culture

Curves

Dad

Dangerous

Dark

Daughter

Design

Differences

Different

Difficult Situations

Doctors

Done

Dwarves

Elements

Emotional

Expression

Eye

Feelings

Film

Firsts

Games

Going Away

Gorillas

Heart

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Quotes by Andy Serkis

Andy Serkis

‘The Hobbit’ was one of the first biggish books I ever read. I remember vividly the ‘riddles in the dark’ passage, and it meant a lot to me to finally get to play it after all these years.

(The) process of acting is no different to conventional screen acting, in that it’s providing a perfect interface between the director and the performer. So there’s no sort of long way around a viral committee of animators.

And ‘Sex Drugs Rock Roll’ was a very transitional film for me in that I was one of the producers and you know, came up with the idea with the writer and the producer, as well. But, it was a very collaborative event. You know, I really love working in that way.

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

Basically we’re puppeteers and if you’re there and you’re in the character, the puppet is going to look good. It’s going to breath life and I think once they find out how to trust this system, you just forget about it and just perform, then it’s just second nature, it just becomes easy.

Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre.

For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don’t necessarily look like themselves. And yet you’ve still got the heart and soul of the performance.

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