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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
I am always curious to sit down with the actor who's playing the part after the casting process and get to know them, get to understand their life a little bit more.
There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.
What I've run into more than anything is people who have a belief that they know who you are. Type-casting happens because people actually write you off. 'You are in this box. That's all you are; that's everything you are.' It's a very de-humanizing experience.
Basically, great directors know how to combine music with the scenes that they are working on.
In the digital space, writers and directors get time to build and establish a character.
People will go into an audition and a casting situation, and they'll see someone across the room that's perhaps slightly famous, or famous, and they think, 'Oh God, I'm not gonna get the part.
There are directors who, their direction is high, but then when you challenge it, it crumbles. They can't back up what they're asking.
[Frida Farell] also wanted the film to serve as a cautionary tale for young women - to say, "Be careful when an attractive man asks you to go to a casting or a photo shoot, because it might be a demon in disguise."
Bernard Manning is controversial but he had incredible timing. I wrote the character of Brian Potter in 'Phoenix Nights' for him to play but unfortunately he was too poorly to do it. I thought it would have been perfect casting but it didn't happen.
I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.
Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time.
People will go into an audition and a casting situation, and they'll see someone across the room that's perhaps slightly famous, or famous, and they think, 'Oh God, I'm not gonna get the part.'
I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on 'The Purge' was crucial to that movie working.
Theatre has always been better disposed to colourblind casting than telly or film. Given that most television is contemporary, and it reaches 56 million people, I am disappointed there still isn't more representation.
I was fascinated by the story of FW Murnau, one of the most famous directors in Germany, where I come from.
We were filming in America and I noticed we were casting shadows like Walnut Whips! The sensible thing to do was go on a diet, so we started rewriting recipes and we're better cooks because of it.
I believe really deeply in the pilot process because you learn things about tone and casting. Even some of our best shows have had substantial re-shoots and reworking before they've gone on the air.
Writing is my main interest; it is where my heart is. I always want to continue writing. Apart from that, I enjoy casting and hopefully want to direct too.
Ultimately when I throw myself behind a movie, I have to really believe in that directors vision.
I always take kind of a zen view of casting and I really don't remember people who passed. I kind of turn it over to the universe and figure, 'Wow, I guess that wasn't meant to be.' It doesn't sit with me.
Casting me as King Arthur was quite bold of 'Spamalot's producers, although it has been historically proved Arthur was Asian, and that Sunday trading started with Asians in 11th-century Britain.
Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
Boyapati is one of the few directors who can pull off a masala film like 'Sarrainodu'.
I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.
Kenneth Branagh is one of the funniest directors on the set. You laugh a lot. He's very skillful.
The Dead was cool, It's a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him, then they called my agent and had me come in and read for it and they wanted to use me.
Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging.
Outside their country, Hungarian directors have had, from the critics at least, a friendly reception.
When it comes to casting for movies, it is a priority that you cast right. The guiding principle must be what is right for the movie, that is the basis you cast someone, not because so-and-so is a friend.
It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
I think actors make for very good directors, and I would like to do that one day.
True taste is forever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy.
I have no qualms approaching directors who I know will help me grow as an actor.
Most actors who direct do it because they've been directed by so many bad directors.
Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.
When you sing a song of love, you're actually giving something to yourself, too. You're singing and casting these affirmations of love out into the universe. It resonates in your body in a way that feels extraordinary.
I've run into more than anything is people who have a belief that they know who you are. Type-casting happens because people actually write you off. "You are in this box. That's all you are, that's everything you are." It's a very de-humanizing experience.
You can be technically strong, and focus all your efforts on elements like casting, music, cinematography and sets, but they are all just add ons. End of the day, filmmaking is really about how well you tell a story.
I don't think anyone went the polls and said, 'I am casting my vote to make sure that Wall Street has better chances to make bigger profits off the backs of the American people.'
Perfect love may cast our fear, but fear is remarkably potent in casting out love.
I love 'Bates Motel.' I'm a huge Vera Farmiga fan, and I'm a huge Freddie Highmore fan. In fact, that entire principal casting.
I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on The Purge was crucial to that movie working.
There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.
I'm trying to learn things behind the camera and what a producer does and shadowing the directors.
As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors.
My dad was a theater actor, so I would follow him backstage. And my mom was a casting director. The moment I heard the applause and realized it would get me out of school, I was hooked.
I think Alma Reville was the only one Alfred Hitchcock trusted. When it came to issues of taste or what the audience wanted, down to editing, script and casting, he would turn to her first. She was his partner.
Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.
I really just want to work with good directors and learn as much as I possibly can.
I don't know how I would react to the casting couch. I'm sure that at that moment, you won't really know what to do. Whatever you do at that moment is instinctive.
Casting a film is to me one of the most important things next to the writing. If you cast it properly everything takes place very easily. If you cast it improperly you're fighting an uphill battle.
Aaron is not at all what his image might indicate. He's fiercly loyal and a true and total gentleman. He's very shy but has very strong opinions. He's into everything, wardrobe, hair, script, casting.
There are a lot of scripts that you can like, but rarely are there directors attached when you're in development with something and that's stressful.
I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice.
When we don't say 'male director,' then why call them 'female directors?'
I am open to working with new directors as long as the script excites me.
Pilots are useful. You just learn things during a pilot - the piece of casting that just wasn't right or things about the storytelling nature.
Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.
I was at stage school in Birmingham Rep when I was called down to London for an audition in the National Theatre. Maximilian Schell, the film actor, was casting Tales from the Vienna Woods. He was looking at me for a small, but significant, role.
