Top 1200 Casting Directors Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.
My job is to kind of nudge them. Who said it, where, like, '90% of the job is casting,' so all I do is try to come to set and focus on getting all the best shots to cover the story; that's really it.
There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.
As players we don't want to be sitting on the touchline or watching the games in the directors' box. That is no fun.
My only real daydreamy casting over the years has been Natalie Portman for Denna. She's an amazing actress, and Denna is going to be one of the hardest characters to pull off.
There are directors that I want to work with and that I admire. You can love a script, but if it doesn't have a good director, it won't be that.
Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.
When I did 'Gilbert Grape,' Lasse Hallstrom let me be on the set with him and in the editing room and in the casting sessions and so on. And so I got a firsthand, rather intimate, high-pressure look at how to make a film.
With independent films, you again get to work with new directors and experiment too.
A lot of directors tend to manipulate actors' vulnerability to get what they want, and that can work.
I was usually asked to do less than I was capable of by directors who had lost control of their movie.
I often go to lunch meetings with my agent, a gallerist or a casting director, but if not, I stay at home and prepare my own food because I love to cook. Im great at pasta, fish and nice salads.
With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.
I'm really fascinated by other directors' methods. I've done a lot of learning by observation.
It's good that Bollywood is changing and directors are trying out Pakistani singers as composers.
All I can say is that with 'The Golden Compass,' I didn't get to make the movie I had planned to make. When I look at the film, at the casting and certain scenes, I'm very happy. As for the final product, I can't vouch for that.
Directors have so much else to do besides tell actors what to do. There are so many issues and problems.
Good directors don't answer questions with their work. They generate debate and create discussion.
We fell in love with movies through directors. Very early on we knew that was what we wanted to do.
In 2008, Obama rode to victory in good part by wearing the openness face, casting the Bush administration as intrusive, secretive hawks who had little regard for individual privacy or civil liberties.
Not many directors have the courage to make movies that are against conventional, commercial norms.
I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.
When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.
When Orlando gets to the point where they're hiring local directors, that will be good.
Nobody cares for the product I, and a host of other horror directors, make.
All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.
Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you’ve learned about the grand themes of life.
The first heart you win over is that casting director. In first meetings, they'll be the ones who see your pitch for the character. And then as you get further up, they'll be the ones reading with you in front of the network.
Every manager feels a responsibility to his board of directors and the public and the players.
In 1965, I was teaching a seminar on freedom when I told my students that the ultimate freedom lay in casting a dice to decide what to do. They were so shocked and fascinated that I knew I had to write the book.
With 'The Leftovers,' I was actually super, super lucky. It was my first major audition. When I came out, the casting director was kissing me on the face, and I was like, 'Oh, that's probably a good sign.'
I've worked with a lot of great directors and often times they solicit your ideas.
It is strange, but directors have always shown more confidence in my abilities than I've in myself.
Casting aspersions on those we love always does something to loosen our ties. We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands.
It is draining when you have a child, and there aren't many women directors with kids out there as role models.
There is a dearth of senior artistes in Kollywood and it is up to the directors to utilise my potential and experience.
My favorite movies are from directors that have a vision, like Wes Anderson or Tim Burton.
I consider it a stroke of luck that I got to work with one of my favourite directors, Mani Ratnam.
It is wrong if how we see women on TV is largely determined by male directors.
Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.
Directors should not be forced to advocate anything in their works because of their demographic identity.
As far as women directors in India go, I think we should have more of them.
Scripts and directors make great actors, not the other way around.
Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.
Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.
You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.
I know I don't go looking for directors. I always wonder why they chose me.
As I've always been open to learning, directors have helped me with the nuances of acting.
I can talk about casting a ballot from space since I did it last time I was on the space station. They basically send you an electronic file, it's a PDF, and you mark your choices.
The directors are selective in their choice of actors and sometimes, those choices smack of arrogance.
I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors.
If mutual fund directors are independent, then I'm the lead character in the Bolshoi Ballet.
There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.
My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.
There are directors, and there are authors. I think I am more of an author than a director.
We were bemused, I guess, when we got the call from Hollywood. We didn't know anything about the entertainment industry or even what a casting agency was. But I thought, 'What do I have to lose?' It's not every day a great opportunity presents itself.
Creative directors can be egocentric, they say. I decide; they shout at people and harass. I don't want that.
I've not been discriminated against, but I can see it happen. And not just race but gender and sexuality, too. It's stereotyping, lazy casting, which is an issue: that people can't see outside the box.
Over the years, I've learnt from co-actors, directors, technicians, and even from junior artists.
