Andy serkis

Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with...

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.

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...

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...

I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.

I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.

I'm definitely moving more towards directing now.

For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology.

I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters...

I can get on with all different sorts of people, and I never feel homesick, particularly, or I've never felt kind of patriotic towards any one country.