I Believe That When People

My Take Is That Acting Is Acting. A Performance Is A Performance. With Performance Capture, If You Don't Get The Performance On The Day, You Can't Enhance The Performance.

I Think We Can Be Very Narrow-minded In This Country; You See Something That Someone's Done And Immediately Want Them To Do The Same Thing Again - But If They Don't, They're Criticised For Not Doing The Same Thing Again, But If They Do They're Just Repeating Themselves.

I Love The Whole Kind Of Notion Of Transformation For Me Is (what) Excites Me About Not Only Acting, But Storytelling. I Love, I Love That Notion Of A Slightly Larger-than-life Artistic Truth, You Know, Magnifying Real Emotional Truth (or) Finding Something About Human Condition (which), You Wouldn't Necessarily Think You Can Learn From Characters Such As Kong Or Gollum, But Actually They Are, You Know, These Huge Amplifications Of A Human Psyche And I Suppose Those Kind Of Roles Have Always Attracted Me Definitely.

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.

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.