Top 1200 Casting Directors Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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.

Your love is the oil in my lamp of life. Your body the wick that burns casting a blanket of comfort over me as the darkness closes in....I love you

Earlier, directors shied away from having a character speak in the Telangana dialect but not anymore.

A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.

Some directors I worked with didn't even know how to read a blueprint, understand a plan.

I do all these panels where people are always talking about the lack of female directors, and I have a lot of opinions on that.

Loveleen Tandon, the casting director of 'Brick Lane,' understood my capacity and suggested my name to director Sarah Gavron. The film has such universal appeal that given a chance I would like to remake it in Hindi.

I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.

Atanu is one of my favourite directors. His script, style of storytelling and characterisation are always very different.

I was really lucky and blessed to have had the likes of directors such as Mani Ratnam and Rajkumar Hirani in my career.

For thirty-five years, David Halberstam, an unsilent member of the Silent Generation, has contemplated America and its place in the world, casting his eye on big subjects - Vietnam, global economics, race, mass media, and the 1950s.

Unfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We've all experienced that, in one way or another.

A dreamer he was, and ever would be. Yet dreaming need not injure us, if it do but take its turn with waking; and even dreams themselves may be turned to beauty, by favoured men to whom nature has given the powers of casting them into form.

I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.

The idea that all violence in movies is okay simply because it happens is bull. Directors and writers have a responsibility.

Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.

Honestly, in retrospect, when I referred to the actors from 'Prince' as non-actors or non-professionals, it was actually a great disservice to them. The fact is that they are all actors and should be viewed that way by the industry. It was our casting process that was non-professional.

Farah ma'am is so technically strong. She is such a good director and one of the most fun directors.

I normally don't have that much confidence. I usually am trying to talk to directors out of giving me a job.

Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.

People look upon a person in TV as someone they can see for nothing. This is carried over in casting pictures. They're afraid; they will not cast a TV lead to be a lead in a movie.

Directors usually have an image of being too casual when it comes to fashion. But as a women, it is very important to be prim and proper.

Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.

Both Peter Chan and Wong Kar Wai are directors that I respect very much.

In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.

There's a bunch of directors that I really admire, and Australian ones as well. It would be nice to do a film at home.

It's not easy casting the men. You have to go gingerly, but you have to approach the right man at the right time because men don't want to play second fiddle to a woman. That's the truth.

People don't normally just say, 'Do you want to come and audition for one of your favorite directors?'

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

I'm a huge Nagisa Oshima fan. He was one of the most radical Japanese directors to come up in the '60s.

I look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I'm probably after the directors more than anything.

For the Amex, which has been casting around for a role for itself, microcaps fill a crucial void - a 'niche' that Amex officials feel has been neglected.

Rejecting offers has not been easy for me, especially when the movies involve some of my favourite actors and directors.

We have a particular philosophy in the casting room that we don't really tell the actors - the actors tell us.

As a believer and a child of the King, to consider casting a vote for someone or for something that would go against what God would vote for ought to be out of the question.

As an actor, I have had an iconic journey and was fortunate enough to have worked with some really wonderful directors.

Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are instructed in religious matters before they can reason about them, and consequently that all such instruction is nothing else but filling the tender mind of a child with prejudices.

I think history repeats itself. There's a constant conversation between the oppressed and the oppressor. No matter what your field is, whether it's gender equality, the Time's Up movement, or diversity casting, it's always going to be a back-and-forth battle.

The Wachowskis' use of space rivals that of musical directors like Gene Kelly and Mark Sandrich.

We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight.

I have so much respect for television actors and directors. We're on set doing 16-hour days, and that's just what we do.

I guess I gravitate towards stories that I like and directors that I want to work with, and I hope that it works out.

I don't work with anyone. I have no editors. I have no directors. There's no one even holding the camera or anything. It's just me in my apartment.

There's a lot of other movies I like, but I don't even pay attention to directors to tell you the truth.

I guess all the directors in France are influenced by Hitchcock, because he's the perfect visual director, in my eyes.

There are so many directors that I want to work with, but I can't tell you that there's one role. If I knew it, I would write it for myself.

Let's put it this way, when I was casting, I cast Viggo first and then found someone who could play his wife, rather than the other way around. So for me he's still the lead character.

Young directors are a delight to work with. With no preconceived notions, they provide enough creative fodder for actors.

I am surrounded by exceptional women on Accenture's board of directors as well as my own leadership team.

Bad directors are the ones who want to tell you every move, and think they're a better actor than you.

While complex acting roles are lacking for actresses, what's even more rare are female directors.

When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.

You think when you start getting jobs that it'll get easier, but that's the biggest lie ever. It gets harder. You have to put in more work. I wish it were the casting couch days because it'd be a lot easier!

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.

Whatever I am today is because of my directors. Without their sheer hard work on me, I wouldn't be an actor.

There are lots of good directors I would like to work with; I want to be inspired and challenged by them.

Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion.

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't

Casting couch is a demon of the world! It is just that in the industry just because people know them, it is just talked about much more but it should be completely eliminated as a concept.

I have a real thing for Mexican directors. And I love Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.