35mm Film Isn't Ticking Away

There's This Whole Grey Area Seemingly Every Time It's Talked About Animators And Who Takes Ultimate Responsibility For The Characters [of The Planet Of The Apes] But Without Question And I'll Go Down Saying This Year After Year, These Characters Are Authored By What We Do On Set. They Are Not Authored By Animators.

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.

When You Have Children, You Realize That At The End It's All About Passing On, About Handing Down. The Process Of Letting Go, Not Attachment, But Appreciating The Beauty And Value In The Change, The Transformation.

My Agent Told Me They Were Casting For The Voice Of Gollum. I Hadnt Read The Lord Of The Rings, But I Read The Script And Realized What An Amazing Role It Was. I Developed A Voice For The Audition Tape, Then Met Peter Jackson And Fran Walsh At The Auditions And Fell In Love With Them Both.

I Was Thinking About That. I Was Thinking, This Is Like Our Boyhood; This Is Like Our Getting Together Over 12 Years To Make - This Our Apehood! I Mean, This Is It! For Me, The Relationships, All Of Those Things, Over Such A Long Period Of Time Now With Actors, But Also Seeing The Characters Grow, Develop, And Change, And Go Through Different Situations.