Andy Serkis Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• 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.

  Andy Serkis

  Art, Thinking, Expression

• 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.

  Andy Serkis

  Book, Thinking, People

• I have a great interest in Victorian musical & cabaret performances and Weimar artists so the references are there, to Cabaret and also All That Jazz and other films where, where there's a kind of (influential German playwright Bertolt) Brecht-ian approach, almost to the character standing outside of himself or, in this case, he's "self-séance-ing."

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Artist, Self

  Source: collider.com

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

  Andy Serkis

  Film, Lord, Projects

  "Andy Serkis plays dual role in "Hobbit" - Gollum and director". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. December 12, 2012.

• I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects. So Peter's known that I've been heading towards directing for a long time. But I always thought my first outing would be a couple of people and a digital camera in the back streets of London somewhere!

  Andy Serkis

  Couple, Long, People

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

• The difference between the big budget films I've done is the length of time. But in terms of the day-to-day, you're still going on to set, you're getting into character, and you're going and doing your job, so there's absolutely no difference. It's just the structure around it and the length of time. But in terms of budget and money, it doesn't really manifest itself.

  Andy Serkis

  Jobs, Character, Differences

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I'm in the early stages of a film called 'Freezing Time' about Eadweard Muybridge, the Victorian photographer who was really the forefather of cinema. Digital animators still treat his images like the Bible. He was a very obsessed man.

  Andy Serkis

  Men, Cinema, Digital

  "Q&A: King of Mo-Cap Andy Serkis on Digital Acting and Gollum's Oscar Diss". Interview with Steve Silverman, www.wired.com. September 14, 2007.

• Second films are, you know, like 'difficult second albums', so it's a tricky position to be in but I think he's made a highly accomplished film.

  Andy Serkis

  Thinking, Albums, Film

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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.

  Andy Serkis

  Believe, Thinking, Theatre

  "Andy Serkis on Enslaved and acting in video games". Interview with Jack Arnott, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2010.

• 35mm film isn't ticking away so it's subconscious - performances are allowed to breathe in a much more real way I think.

  Andy Serkis

  Real, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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.

  Andy Serkis

  Sex, Rocks, Ideas

• It's a really unique situation where you just - you make independent films or you make big blockbuster movies, but it's very rare when all of those ingredients come together, and you can really tell a story that you care about with a character you absolutely love with the people you love making movies with.

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Independent, Unique

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

• 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.

  Andy Serkis

  Heart, Character, Games

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