Quotes by Andy Serkis

“The voice he created for character was so perfect. The character was quite scary and the voice was quite scary at times.”

“This is no mere monster movie,”

“It is very much a character piece and very much about relationships. A lot of the themes in the film are about isolation and love, with all the characters isolated in some way.”

“When I first came out to New Zealand for principal photography, the focus was on voicing Gollum. But Peter wanted Gollum to be the most interactive digital character ever made for a movie, with a combination of live action and digital animation.”

“My agent told me they were casting for the voice of Gollum. I hadnt read The Lord of the Rings, but I read the script and realized what an amazing role it was. I developed a voice for the audition tape, then met Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh at the auditions and fell in love with them both.”

“Of course the computer animators take a lot of the credit for whats going on, but with Peters help I really fleshed out the character,”

“Of course the computer animators take a lot of the credit for whats going on, but with Peters help I really fleshed out the character.”

“This was absolutely, really needed because we were doing really badly this year.”

“Every single frame has got something going on in the background; in many ways, its an embarrassment of riches. I guess some of the New York scenes, especially in the third act when Kong is back. Some of that rampage stuff, with the people running down the street and all the shop signs and all the neon that just goes on for miles. Those big aerial shots in New York that completely faithfully re-create New York at the time. Thats pretty special stuff.”

“I think he (director, Peter Jackson) was originally going to have Kong kill Lumpy. Instead he gave me a role who finally gets devoured by computer graphics ? I dont know whether that is a comment or not.”

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.

I think parenting is very different now. Were totally governed by our children!

I understand why people went nuts for The Artist. We use words so much, its nice to be able to explore a different way of communication, to be able to express silently what someone - or something - is thinking or feeling.

When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.

The wonderful thing about 48 fps is the integration of live action and CG elements; that is something I learned from The Hobbit. We are so used to 24 fps and the romance of celluloid... but at 48 fps, you cannot deny the existence of these CG creations in the same time frame and space and environment as the live action.

I do love nature, but I dont suppose Id spent more time in zoos as a child than anyone else!

People will come up to me and try and be secretive and say, Can you do the Gollum voice for me? And Im like, Are you kidding? Its 8:30 in the morning on the Victoria Line.

The learning curve is The Hobbit is being shot in 3D.

My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East.

I think the actors in Greystoke were amazing. They had a really good performance coach called Peter Elliott whos, of his time, one of the greatest simian performance coaches for actors.