I've Been Writing And Wanting To Direct

People Are Mystified By It And So They Kind Of Think, The Acting Community Thinks They're Gonna Be Replaced By Cg Characters And Animators Think They're Gonna Be Replaced By Performance Capture (and) A Lot Of Directors, Particularly European Directors, Who Have No Experience Of It.

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.

Everybody Thinks Performance Capture Is About Thrashing Around And Doing A Lots Of Movement, But It's Actually About Being Able To Contain And Think And Be Believed In A Close-up, As Much As Anything Else.

On Lower Budget Things You're Still Working Collaboratively, But The Investment And Your Level Of Creative Importance Is Higher On Something Like This.

We've Never Had Nannies. We've Had Great Grandparents, Great Support From Family, And The Kids Have Been On Every Set: They've Seen Me Play Gollum, King Kong, Captain Haddock, The Lot. They Totally Get It, And They Want To Go Into The Business. Ruby, My Daughter, Is Very Keen To Become An Actress.