Where As You Go Into Playing Something

The Matter Is - We Are Actors Playing Roles [in Planet Apes] And They Happen To Be In This Instance Apes But There's No Difference. In The Scenes That We're Playing, If We Were To Block Out The Scenes As Actors In Costumes, It Would Be No Different.

I Do Listen To Myself Sometimes And Think, 'is My Moral Compass So Easily Swayed By The Characters I Play, Or Is It Me Growing As A Human Being?'

But I Think There's Something Wonderful And Extraordinary About Climbing On Your Own And Just That Kind Of Relationship To The Environment. I'm Very Addicted To The Mountains. You Know, So, I Do Like That Solitude.

I Never Felt Totally, 100%, Patriotically English... I'd Seen A Lot Of The World By An Early Age - Sort Of Spent A Lot Of Time Traveling Around Lebanon And I'd Seen Babylon, And Damascus, And All Sorts Of Places In The Middle East By The Time I Was Ten. Then We'd Return To Ruslip In West London... Done A Fair Bit Of Traveling Really.

I Wanted To Be A Painter, Really, When I Was Growing Up As A Kid. It Was One Thing That Really Took A Grip On Me.