Casting Quotes
It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.
When you first get out of doing a show for a long time where you played a teenager, casting directors and producers all still look at you as being the character that you played for so long.
My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting director left the room and yelled at me from the hallway to keep reading.
And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio'.
I love the casting process. It's a cliché but I think it's the most important part of the process. I really enjoy it too. I love putting that jigsaw puzzle of people together.
The first time when you can really get a sense of what the movie is going to look and feel like is when you're in a casting room and seeing it.
I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.
I didn't want to do casting in a way that you find yourself in a situation where there's this perfect girl for a part and you just can't cast her because the family says no.
Because when you watch US television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.
Casting is everything. I put a huge amount of work into casting, and consistently across my career, I am most proud of my bold choices I made in casting.
I pride myself on doing character-driven movies and, when my movies have worked, it's been because of the right casting and the right character, and it just clicks.
The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.
With kids you can take a chance but casting a guy at 45 is different. You don't discover somebody that age. If an actor hasn't made it by that time he probably has no talent.
To be given the reins of creativity is a beautiful thing when you're used to just showing up to a casting and standing there having clothes put on you.
Casting is very instinctual. I really like to meet people. To me, it's about their essence more than their audition.
I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.
Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil.
If you put up posters around town for high-school kids, high-school kids will come. If you're casting politicians, you can't put up posters and have politicians come down.
When it comes to casting, I've been so lucky. I've worked with unbelievable actors who make me look better than I am and take the written word and make it honest.
For me, when you're casting known talent, you're not just casting their performances. You're casting the public's relationship with them, their public images to a degree.
Casting is so important, with any film you do. You have to get actors that you believe will fulfill the promise of the characters that are on the page.
Hillary Clinton said that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is engaged in 'theater.' Which explains the new strategy to defeat him: casting him as the lead in 'Spider-Man: the Musical.'
We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.
Management is the process of assuring that the program and objectives of the organization are implemented. Leadership on the other hand has to do with casting vision and motivating people.
I believe really deeply in the pilot process because you learn things about tone and casting.
Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in.
For me, casting is critical. It's nice that social media and the passionate fans really corroborated choices and embraced kids to be characters.
You set up the look, the visual effects and the sets, and that's awesome, but I enjoy the casting most of all. That's where you really get to define the show.
One thing I'm most proud of, in my movies, is that I think the performances are super-strong, but that's not all me. I think part of it is casting appropriately.
I start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors.
I think actors really like to know what does a casting agent really think or what does a composer really think.
Acting and singing on 'One Tree Hill' was definitely one of the most incredible experiences of my life. I didn't even know I could act until I auditioned at the casting call for the part of Mia.
You'll find that street casting in America is a lot different than street casting in different nations.
I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.
There was never any down side to casting friends over professionals. It was always fun seeing folks who never performed before stretching their wings.
I like to audition for good projects because if it's a good project, it's an opportunity to get in front of a casting director.
After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.
When the play is still evolving I try to be at rehearsal as often as possible, and part of that casting process. You find new things when the language is living in different people's mouths.
As an actor, when you walk into a room to audition, you get five minutes with a casting director, who doesn't even look at you, most of the time.
Step 1 in casting vision is to make sure your people love Jesus more than they love the vision you are casting.
As far as casting, I'm there for every single person that's cast. Even if it's one word, I'm there for their auditions.
When you're casting, you get a page or two - just enough to do the scene. Now that you're in the world, you get the whole script.