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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 video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre. Andy Serkis

Love, Best, Age, Culture, Theatre

Be magnificent. Life's short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone. Andy Serkis

Life, Short, You Can Do It, You, Out

There are parts of New Zealand that I absolutely fell in love with that I will miss going back to, but I kind of think that is the part that can continue and will continue on. I don't imagine I'll stop going back to New Zealand, because I feel part of the fabric there, really. Andy Serkis

Love, Think, New, Back, Feel, Will

I'm in the early stages of a film called 'Freezing Time' about Eadweard Muybridge, the Victorian photographer who was really the forefather of cinema. Digital animators still treat his images like the Bible. He was a very obsessed man. Andy Serkis

Time, Man, Bible, Treat, Early, Cinema

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 in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character. Andy Serkis

Good, Live, Character, Day, Me, End

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded. Andy Serkis

Family, Justice, Strong, People, Always

Thank God for Skype! Andy Serkis

God, Thank God, Skype, Thank

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. Andy Serkis

People, Country, I Can, Feel, Kind, Felt

The whole chameleon thing about acting. That's why I'm moving towards directing - it's a much more healthy occupation. Andy Serkis

Moving, Acting, Healthy, Why, More, Much

Actors' performances in films are enhanced in a million different ways, down to the choice of camera shot by the director - whether it's in slow motion or whether it's quick cut - or... the choice of music behind the close-up or the costume that you're wearing or the makeup. Andy Serkis

Music, Makeup, Camera, Slow, You, Choice

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I believe that when people experience an event as a community, it can transcend and change people's lives. Andy Serkis

Change, Community, Experience, People

Gollum is entirely based on the notion of addiction. The way that the ring pervades him, makes him craving, lustful, depletes him physically, psychologically and mentally. Andy Serkis

Addiction, Ring, Way, Craving, Him

In terms of animation, animators are actors as well. They are fantastic actors. They have to draw from how they feel emotionally about the beat of a scene that they're working on. They work collaboratively. Andy Serkis

Work, Feel, Working, Animation, Beat

I would love to direct an 'Apes' movie. It would be in the spirit of where I'm going with my career - avatars played by actors to say something about the human condition. Andy Serkis

Love, Career, Say, Human Condition

'The Hobbit' was one of the first biggish books I ever read. I remember vividly the 'riddles in the dark' passage, and it meant a lot to me to finally get to play it after all these years. Andy Serkis

Me, Remember, Dark, Play, First, Years

Mountaineering has always been a huge hobby of mine. Andy Serkis

Hobby, Always, Mine, Been, Huge

Performance capture, for me, is finding the essence of a performance. Andy Serkis

Me, Performance, Finding, Capture

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. Andy Serkis

Think, Doing, Performance, Capture, Much

I think there will always be a particular generation of actors who... think that they're going to be replaced by robots. But certainly the emerging actors... understand that that's part of the craft. Andy Serkis

Think, Generation, Robots, Will, Craft

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. Andy Serkis

Time, Age, World, Early, Done, Fair

Just being an ape is a workout. Andy Serkis

Workout, Just, Ape, Being

I do love nature, but I don't suppose I'd spent more time in zoos as a child than anyone else! Andy Serkis

Love, Nature, Time, Child, More, Than

The art of transformation is a very important thing to me, and I always believe I can say something more truthful through characters that are further away from me. Andy Serkis

Art, Believe, Me, Transformation, Say

I enjoy high-speed about-turns in thought. Andy Serkis

Thought, Enjoy, High-Speed

My very, very first moment on set on 'Lord of the Rings' in 2000 was me in a lycra suit, six and a half thousand feet up on a mountain in New Zealand, standing in front of 250 crew who were all wondering what I was doing - myself included. Andy Serkis

Myself, Mountain, Moment, Me, Feet, New

If I hear someone say something, and they're 100 per cent about it, then it's almost inevitable that I'll take the opposite view. I guess I feel at odds with things like society. Absolutism is always a trigger for me. Andy Serkis

Society, Me, View, Say, Feel, Inevitable

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