Everybody Thinks Performance Capture Is About Thrashing

Working With People You Adore And Love. There's Just A Sense, All The Way Through All Of The Movies [planet Of Apes], That You're Very Rarely In A Position Where You Have Great Material That You're Passionate About And A Big Audience Who Love It, And The Detail And Nuance, And The Exquisiteness Of The Fantastic Actors And Director With Great Writing.

You're Watching Your Kids Playing Football And You're Not Present. It's Like The Worst... It's Horrible. I Despise Myself For It. I Think It's A Particularly Male Thing. Being Present And In The Moment With Your Kids Is Something A Lot Of Men Struggle With.

I'd Already Started Directing Short Films When We Were Doing 'lord Of The Rings,' Then Videogame Projects. So Peter's Known That I've Been Heading Towards Directing For A Long Time. But I Always Thought My First Outing Would Be A Couple Of People And A Digital Camera In The Back Streets Of London Somewhere!

I Remember Kind Of Doing Early Acting And Thinking, "god, They Don't Paint Behind The Sets." It's A Bit Of A Shame, Really - "oh, What's On The Other Side Of This Wall? Oh, You Can See The Plywood." I Was Really Disappointed. I Just Thought That These Things Were Real, From Watching Things As A Kid.

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.