Andy Serkis Quotes About Rings

Quotes about: Rings

• 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.

  Andy Serkis

  Voice, Agents, Casting

• Gollum is Gollum - though in 'Lord of the Rings' he's 600 years old and in 'The Hobbit' he's 540, so he looks a little bit more handsome.

  Andy Serkis

  Years, Looks, Littles

• In the same way 'Lord of the Rings' was an interpretation of the book, 'The Hobbit' is being treated the same way. It will be faithfully represented with a fresh interpretation.

  Andy Serkis

  Book, Way, Lord

  "Gollum Actor Andy Serkis to Serve as Second Unit Director on 'The Hobbit' (Exclusive)" by Carolyn Giardina, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 6, 2011.

• What's wonderful about Tolkien and Shakespeare is that they show up your own individual microscope. They're so infinitely vast. You can reinterpret them in so many ways. Each age will have its own resonance with Lord of the Rings.

  Andy Serkis

  Age, Way, Wonderful

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• 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

• 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.

• No matter how extreme things get, it still has that ring of truth about it that backs the characters - even though they're despicable and what they're doing isn't right you still care for their fate.

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Fate, Care

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.

  Andy Serkis

  Swimming, Climbing, Mountain

  "Serkis: Playing Virtual Parts On The Big Screen". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 4, 2011.

• I've done a fair amount of that stuff... when we did 'Lord of the Rings' the transformation sequence from Smeagol to Gollum was a 19-hour make-up job. You have to have a kind of zen button that you press and allow the mind to be focused in a certain way.

  Andy Serkis

  Jobs, Mind, Buttons

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Originally when I went off to work on 'The Lord of The Rings' I got a call from my agent saying that I was just going to do a voice. But I couldn't really approach it like that. To get Gollum's voice I had to play the character.

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Play, Voice

• I think even back as far as 'Lord of the Rings,' there was always the chance that 'The Hobbit' would be made, even way back then. Of course at that point, Peter Jackson didn't probably think at that point that he'd be directing it.

  Andy Serkis

  Thinking, Would Be, Way

  "Hobbit Week: A Conversation With Andy Serkis, Creator Of Gollum". Interview with Ethan Gilsdorf, www.wired.com. December 10, 2012.

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