I think even back as far as 'Lord of the Rings,' there was always the chance that 'The Hobbit' would be made, even way back then. Of course at that point, Peter Jackson didn't probably think at that point that he'd be directing it.

— Andy Serkis

I think parenting is very different now. We're totally governed by our children!

— Andy Serkis

I think the actors in 'Grey stoke' were amazing. They had a perfect performance coach called Peter Elliott who's, of his time, one of the greatest simian performance coaches for actors.

— Andy Serkis

I understand why people went nuts for 'The Artist.' We use words so much, it's nice to be able to explore a different way of communication, to be able to express silently what someone - or something - is thinking or feeling.

— Andy Serkis

'Macbeth' is an amazing story.

— Andy Serkis

My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East.

— Andy Serkis

People will come up to me and try and be secretive and say, 'Can you do the Gollum voice for me?' And I'm like, 'Are you kidding? It's 8:30 in the morning on the Victoria Line.'

— Andy Serkis

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

— Andy Serkis

The learning curve is 'The Hobbit' is being shot in 3D.

— Andy Serkis

The wonderful thing about 48 fps is the integration of live action and CG elements; that is something I learned from 'The Hobbit.' We are so used to 24 fps and the romance of celluloid... but at 48 fps, you cannot deny the existence of these CG creations in the same time frame and space and environment as the live action.

— Andy Serkis