I'd Already Started Directing Short Films When

Not A Day Goes By Where I'm Not Reminded Of Gollum By Some Person In The Street Who Asks Me To Do His Voice Or Wants To Talk To Me About Him. But Because 'the Hobbit' Has Been Talked About As A Project For Many Years, I Knew That At Some Point I'd Have To Reengage With Him.

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.

[greek] Theater Started Off And Used Masks And Kabuki, In The East, They Used Mask-work. And Then, Commedia Dell'arte In Italy And Then, You Know, We're Part Of An Acting Tradition And, And Performance Capture Is No Different.

As Long As You Have The Acting Chops And The Desire To Get Inside A Character, You Can Play Anything.

I Was Thinking About That. I Was Thinking, This Is Like Our Boyhood; This Is Like Our Getting Together Over 12 Years To Make - This Our Apehood! I Mean, This Is It! For Me, The Relationships, All Of Those Things, Over Such A Long Period Of Time Now With Actors, But Also Seeing The Characters Grow, Develop, And Change, And Go Through Different Situations.