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.

I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.

I was thinking about that. I was thinking, this is like our Boyhood; this is like our getting together over 12 years to make - this our Apehood! I mean, this is it! For me, the relationships, all of those things, over such a long period of time now with actors, but also seeing the characters grow, develop, and change, and go through different situations.

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.

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.

I've done a fair amount of that stuff... when we did 'Lord of the Rings' the transformation sequence from Smeagol to Gollum was a 19-hour make-up job. You have to have a kind of zen button that you press and allow the mind to be focused in a certain way.

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.