I've Been Writing And Wanting To Direct

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.

More And More Good Actors Are Now Transmigrating Into The Videogame Space And Playing Roles There Because It's Where My Generation Of Kids Get Stories From.

What You Can Do With Visual Effects Is Enhance The Look Of The Character, But The Actual Integrity Of The Emotional Performance And The Way The Character's Facial Expressions Work, That Is What Is Going To Be Created On The Day With Other Actors And The Director.

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.

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.