Casting Quotes - Page 13

• You know, I have never had a casting couch proposition in my life. I thought there was something wrong with me.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Couches, Propositions, Knows

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• So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

  Walt Whitman

  Book, Light, Age

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• I play a man who is obsessed with his own beauty, so it's perfect casting.

  Alex Pettyfer

  Men, Play, Perfect

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• It's so pretentious, but I believe that with comedy, if you have a good story, 90% of it is casting. Once you get the guys and gals in there, it's pretty easy to make a funny movie.

  Matt Walsh

  Believe, Guy, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• Deb Zane, our casting director on the Hunger Games was very sanguine, from the beginning, about just blocking out what everybody else says that they want.

  Nina Jacobson

  Block, Games, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• Suzanna Collins was very supportive, but we very much wanted her blessing on casting. In production, she visited us once, but she really was not involved in the production process. She's seen the Hunger Games movie twice, in the post-production process, once as an early cut and then once when it was finished.

  Nina Jacobson

  Cutting, Blessing, Games

  Source: collider.com

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• I wouldn't take on the project unless I could have complete creative control in casting.

  Craig Brewer

  Creative, Projects

  Source: collider.com

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• I needed to change my name just to liberate myself and find out I could do it without walking into a Hollywood casting office with the name Coppola.

  Nicolas Cage

  Names, Office, Hollywood

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Great question in science - questions like the ones Herschel raised about the structure of the universe - are seldom answered by ivory-tower types engaging in pure thought. They are answered by people who are willing to get down into the trenches and grapple with nature. If that means casting your own telescope mirrors, as Herschel did, so be it.

  James Trefil

  Mean, Ivory Tower, Mirrors

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• 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.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Hands, Idols, Ties

  Gustave Flaubert (1957). “Madame Bovary”

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• I was pretty confident that I'd be playing something, if James Gunn could convince Marvel Studios and Disney to cast me. He's involved with the casting too, but if he could convince them to go along with him and agree with getting me on the roster, then yeah, I would have voiced Groot. Not a problem. Groot is an awesome character.

  Michael Rooker

  Character, Problem, Rosters

  Source: collider.com

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• You do see a few people and you are thinking of how that chemistry is going to work, but it's not really fair to put people who are auditioning together in a room. You have to make that judgement yourself, and that's partly where the casting director is so good. It was that blend that we were looking for.

  Adrian Hodges

  Thinking, People, Judgement

  Source: collider.com

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• The changes are part of my writing process. When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking.

  Pawel Pawlikowski

  Writing, Imagine, Photograph

  "Writer/Director Pawel Pawlikowski Talks IDA, Returning to Poland, His Visual Style, Shooting in Black in White, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. May 1, 2014.

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• 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.

  Krysten Ritter

  Opportunity, Directors, Auditions

  "Superhero and the City". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2015.

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• Casting is very instinctual. I really like to meet people. To me, it's about their essence more than their audition.

  Francesca Gregorini

  Essence, People, Auditions

  Source: collider.com

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• I started in the P.A. world and craft service and storyboard artist, with the eye on the prize of directing. When I was directing second unit on Babel, I ended up casting most of the unknown parts. In these weird circles, I was this guy who found these kids on the streets.

  Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

  Kids, Eye, Artist

  Source: collider.com

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• My casting process was slightly different and slightly interesting insofar as I knew everybody could act. That's something you've seen. You know people can. You've seen them on the screen and you think either they're a good actor or a bad actor. So that's not the point. What I wanted to do was find people who I thought would have a similar comic sensibility.

  Dan Mazer

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• The process of casting a movie has many complicated variables...

  Brad Furman

  Variables, Complicated, Process

  "Gods of Egypt director and studio apologise for lack of diversity" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2015.

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• 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.

  Jenji Kohan

  Latin, Black, Talent

  Source: collider.com

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• The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Bergman, Vengeful, Eleanor

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• Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings.

  Auguste Rodin

  Photography, Inspire, Feelings

  Albert Edward Elsen, Auguste Rodin (1980). “In Rodin's studio: a photographic record of sculpture in the making”, Cornell Univ Pr

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• I want to cast correctly, and then I want them to live on screen. If I cast the wrong actor, I'm screwed. But, if I cast the right actor, it really works out. The casting process is so important.

  Andre Øvredal

  Work Out, Important, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• It was a very, very intense and long casting process [for The Killing] because we really had to find the right people who could carry the weight of this story, who had the chops and who had the spirit, where they could bring in so much of their own selves to these characters. So, the casting process took many months.

  Veena Sud

  Character, Self, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• Casting is so important in horror. It's so important to have strong actors to tell a story because, if you don't believe in the character, how can you be scared for them?

  Alexandre Aja

  Strong, Believe, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  David Michod

  Rooms, Firsts, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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