Working With People You Adore And Love.

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.

There Are No Rhymes Or Reason, Actually. Having Said That, You Know, Cause There Are People Who Are Absolutely Single-minded About Their Process And They Can Still Come Up With Great Work. But (what) I Enjoy And It's The Same, I Suppose, As I Became More Of A Family Man, I Enjoy, I Enjoy An Atmosphere Where It, You Know, Doesn't Have To Be About Conflict To Get Good Results.

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.

Everybody Thinks Performance Capture Is About Thrashing Around And Doing A Lots Of Movement, But It's Actually About Being Able To Contain And Think And Be Believed In A Close-up, As Much As Anything Else.

I Remember Kind Of Doing Early Acting And Thinking, "god, They Don't Paint Behind The Sets." It's A Bit Of A Shame, Really - "oh, What's On The Other Side Of This Wall? Oh, You Can See The Plywood." I Was Really Disappointed. I Just Thought That These Things Were Real, From Watching Things As A Kid.