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My natural bent is to have an overabundance of energy, and motion-capture essentializes your every breath, your every move. Seeing yourself through that mask, you realize how far you can pull back and make the performance even more powerful.

— Andy Serkis

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

With my mask, I controlled all of the mouth movements with my own mouth.

— Peter Mayhew

I have such freedom when I'm living through a mask, and by contrast, can feel very exposed when a camera is capturing my real face. Kind of like the difference between walking out your front door in a sweater and jeans or in a Speedo.

— Doug Jones

When I do a mask, I do try to put a lot of character and a lot of expression into the sculpt.

— Rick Baker

You learn to rely on a few basic movements and use your voice to the greatest extent possible to convey your emotions. So there was a technical challenge there and a responsibility to create a character from behind the mask.

— Helena Bonham Carter

There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.

— Beck

An instructor once told me that when there's resistence in your body, it's only because of the resistence in your mind. It's about getting inside the pose. Being the breath.

— Lisa Bonet

Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

— Rudolf Nureyev

The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'

— Willem Dafoe

I like to train the body from as many different angles as possible to use every modality available to do it.

— Jillian Michaels

✗Opposing Perspectives

I try to stay in the best physical shape that I can because I do most of my own stunts. It looks amazing if you can do it, but I don't advocate it because you always get injured.

— Raymond Cruz