I'm definitely moving more towards directing now.

I'm definitely moving more towards directing now.

I have a great interest in Victorian musical & cabaret performances and Weimar artists so the references are there, to Cabaret and also All That Jazz and other films where, where there's a kind of (influential German playwright Bertolt) Brecht-ian approach, almost to the character standing outside of himself or, in this case, he's "self-séance-ing."

On lower budget things you're still working collaboratively, but the investment and your level of creative importance is higher on something like this.

More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.

In 'Tintin,' it's like a live-action role. You're living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emotional arc. In an animated movie, it's a committee decision. There are 50 people creating that character. You're responsible for a small part.

When I first was offered the role on Rise [of the Planet of the Apes], I always played Caesar as a human being within ape skin.