I'm Definitely Moving More Towards Directing Now.

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.

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.

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 Wasn't Captured. That Was Filmed On 35 Millimeter, And For Certain Of Those Shots, It Was Rotoscoped And Painted Over.

At The Moment, My Trajectory Isn't To Think About Acting. I'm Absolutely Devoted To The Imaginarium, Our Projects And Directing. And Watching And Enabling Other Actors Do Their Thing In Our Studio Is Hugely Rewarding. 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.

A Lot Of Actors On Film Sets... Very Often They're Not Paying Attention To The Physical World Around Them. I Think Through Studying Art, I've Always Had That Awareness And That's Something That I've Wanted To Bring In To Go Beyond Acting... As A Form Of Expression, They Are Intrinsically Linked.