#the ring

I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#directing #doing #films #i #lord

In the same way 'Lord of the Rings' was an interpretation of the book, 'The Hobbit' is being treated the same way. It will be faithfully represented with a fresh interpretation. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#book #faithfully #fresh #interpretation #lord

Originally when I went off to work on 'The Lord of The Rings' I got a call from my agent saying that I was just going to do a voice. But I couldn't really approach it like that. To get Gollum's voice I had to play the character. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#approach #call #character #get #going

There was a combination of not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also really not wanting to be stuck in Lord of the Rings for the rest of my life, and being desperate to kind of make sure that I could do something else with my life. ↗

— Sean Astin

#being #combination #could #desperate #else

I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

#deep #ending #final #had #helm

Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

#doing #else #i #interested #lord

Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#dune #everyone #fiction #going #lifetime

Lord of the Rings, I think, is far and away the most brilliantly done stuff. ↗

— Len Wein

#brilliantly #done #far #i #i think

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. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#certain #climbing #did #every #filmed

That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#big #discovering #effect #even #had