I'm definitely moving more towards directing now.

I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.

My first job when I got my equity card was acting in 14 plays back-to-back. Playing that many roles, you look for ways of differentiating the characters physically, which goes hand in hand with understanding them psychologically.

For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology.

That's why I ended up going to Lancaster University, because they had a visual arts course, and in the first year it was like a broad visual arts course in sculpture, painting, graphics - all of that.

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.

That's what I think is the biggest challenge, is just being still and learning how to just be present in that stillness and not over do it, not over act.