I'm Quite Contrary. If People Agree On

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'm Working From Home A Lot. That's Very Unusual Because I'm Away A Lot, Sometimes Working On The Other Side Of The World For Long Periods Of Time. So, It's Hard To Manage In The Sense That I Want To Be The Best Dad I Can Be But It's Almost Harder When You Have Your Kids Outside The Door.

Gorillas Are Still Wild Creatures. That's Made Very Clear When You Observe Them In Nature. They Charge And Perform Other Displays That Are Terrifying By Design. But They Don't Attack Unless They Feel Threatened.

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.

But That's Not What An Actor Does. An Actor Finds Things In The Moment With A Director And Other Actors That You Don't Have Time To Hand-draw Or Animate With A Computer.