Top 1200 Casting Directors Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I would love to be a fly on the wall watching other directors and actors to see what their process is like.

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

There are so many directors who don't like any kind of interaction on set except for producers. I am the opposite.

I'm pretty sure a lot of directors would be thrilled to cast age appropriate roles. I am.

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

I tapped into my potential in Bengali films, which I don't think directors in Bollywood were able to understand.

These new-age directors like Karthik Subbaraj are bringing about a change that I want to be a part of.

I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.

I haven't faced a casting couch in the South or Bollywood. But yes, I have faced my share of harassment in both industries. I don't have the guts to name them because they are powerful people - men and women who made sure I felt helpless.

The first time I met Garry Shandling was my audition for 'The Larry Sanders Show,' with Garry and his casting director Francine Maisler. I can recall every minute of it. He was gracious and kind, and he read with me. He was terrific.

Directors didn't flood me with offers because I was Subhendu's son. I had to slog to find my foothold.

A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it.

It has been a fairy tale for an outsider, bouncing from one film set to another, choosing my films as assertively as those films chose me. And through this journey I have not once faced the dreaded syndrome of the 'casting couch.'

My university organised a casting call for a film and I won the role. I played a character who was dying of cancer. I remember in the middle of shooting going, 'Oh my God! Why did I decide to do this?' But people noticed me in it and I started getting invited to castings.

When I first started out, I found it really hard to be rejected all the time. You invest in a casting, you prepare and get excited about it, then when I fail and don't get it, it makes me question whether I should be a model.

The energy of first-time directors is tremendous. They work beyond the limits for a hit in this competitive industry.

I am Latino. I'm proud of being Latino. That's not to say I wouldn't love to see more diversity in casting. It's starting to get better but we are nowhere near where we need to be. But I'm not scared of playing Latinos, as long as they're well-drawn.

I'm obsessed with Maggie Smith - the way that she can be the most brilliant actress in every single situation and then do Harry Potter, and still make me cry while she's casting spells with a wand?

When I came to Mumbai to act and it didn't work out for me for few years, I thought I will go back to training but casting room has been a great training space for me.

It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.

I'm always being told by directors that I add chemistry to scenes, so I mean how difficult could it be?

In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.

That was the good thing about having different directors [on series]. You had to stay on your toes.

As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.

Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter.

There was always a conscious effort on my part to do different cinema. It's taken time for the directors to accept me.

The great directors managed to dissolve and disappear into the work. They make other people look good.

When you hire directors, you're most concerned about whether or not someone from the outside will get the jokes.

Everyone's so used to taking care of actors and directors, but people in the crew are there the longest and working the hardest.

Even during the casting process, the pools of talent are so deep when you have a call for Latin women or black women or a middle-aged woman because they never get their shot. There's so much talent there.

Some directors involve waiting, and if you want to work with that particular director you're going to have to hang around.

Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.

I remember how my mom would take me on the subway from Queens to Broadway. We'd go to the offices of casting agents. Many doors were slammed in our faces. I was just a boy, but I remember that well.

I have been very busy in the South and have had the opportunity to work on great films with the best directors.

So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.

I've been lucky enough to do a few editorials in the U.K., but I've never even been on a casting for mainstream commercial work. When I try to understand it, I think people are scared to try something new.

Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.

I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors.

Historically, the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit, forcing the majority party to whip its members into casting politically painful votes in favor.

I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.

Whether you are buying a car or casting a ballot, choosing a job or planning a family, follow your moral compass. Don't let others define you. Don't let advertisers mold you; don't let zealots ensnare you; don't let conventional wisdom trap you....you are part of a much larger whole.

Things maybe take longer usually when it comes to TV - especially network TV. There are usually multiple levels that you have to go through in terms of the casting director, the producers, the studio, the network, reading with other people.

Any debut novel is usually a case of spitting into the wind - or, just maybe, casting your bread upon the waters. Without an established audience in place, first-time authors have to hope for resonant word of mouth and a receptive reviewer or three.

Now that I have started acting in Bengali films, I will look forward to working with various directors.

The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.

I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas.

Sudhir Mishra is one the finest directors; he knows how to manipulate an actor's emotion, sensibilities and expressions.

I remember when I started modelling and being the only non-white girl in the fashion show. I was grateful to be there, but at the casting, there had been many beautiful women of different descriptions, and I was wondering why they were not being represented.

People need to understand how exponential technologies are impacting the business landscape. They need to do some future-casting and look at how industries are evolving and being transformed.

I'm not the kind of actress who asks a lot of questions of my directors unless it's something I really need to know.

After completing my graduation, I went to Mumbai and started working as an assistant casting director. I worked on films like 'Talaash,' 'Ek Mai Aur Ekk Tu,' 'Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani' and 'Student Of The Year,' among others.

I mean, casting gender non-conforming people in campaigns and editorials and on covers of magazines is a risk for any business because there's going to be controversy, but I think they need to take the risk and believe they're moving in the right direction.

I'm not one of those directors who can just kind of walk away from the edit room and come back and check in.

We have the wrong people chasing Osama bin Laden. It ought to be athletic directors and reporters. They'll find you.

Be it known that Men of dull faculties and slight wisdom, They who cling proudly to signs, Cannot believe in this Dharma. Now I, joyfully and fearlessly, In the midst of the bodhisattvas Frankly casting aside my expedient devices, Merely preach the Unexcelled Path.

I've been fortunate to work with several actors and directors who I look up to, and learned from each of them.

I want to work with as many directors as possible because with each director, you learn something new.

The tragedy of journalism lies in its impermanence; the very topicality which gives it brilliance condemns it to an early death. Too often it is a process of flinging bright balloons in the path of the hurricane, a casting of priceless petals upon the rushing surface of a stream.

I love being directed, and I feel so grateful to be able to get to work with some of the directors I've worked with.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.