Casting Quotes - Page 14

• 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.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  People, Theatre, Television

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• My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.

  Bella Thorne

  Texas, Giving, Directors

  "Meet Shake It Up's Bella Thorne!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 4, 2010.

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• To be given the reins of creativity is a beautiful thing when you're used to just showing up to a casting and standing there having clothes put on you.

  Erin Wasson

  Beautiful, Creativity, Clothes

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• For me, casting is critical. It's nice that social media and the passionate fans really corroborated choices and embraced kids to be characters.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  Nice, Character, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• I had been at Comic-Con, and I have the same manager as Bob Morley, so we ended up at a Warner Bros. party. I met Jason Rothenberg for the first time, and he's a fan of Black Sails and Shameless and some of my work, and was like, "Hey, we've been having trouble casting this part. I think you'd be perfect for it, if you'd be willing to come up and have some fun for some episodes."

  Zach McGowan

  Fun, Party, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• You need great actors in this one, because there are moments where there's no way to get around it, you just need to come up with it. They have no time; they can't help you with coaches: "We've got to have it now!" Whether it's tears, whether it's a five-page scene. You can't put it off tomorrow because we're already behind; you've got to have it. I'm just amazed at the casting and how wonderful everybody was.

  Courtney B. Vance

  Tears, Needs, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I walk into office, which is the casting office for CBS in New York. Mainly what they cast out of this office was the CBS daytime shows. I go in and walk into this room which every seat is filled with young African-American boys and girls and they were in their teens. I went, "I'm in the wrong place. Why am I here? What's going on?"So I go in and meet Norman [Lear].

  Richard Masur

  Girl, New York, Boys

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm fine watching stuff on tape, to me casting is the most painful part of the whole process, it's like going on a horribly awkward date every five minutes for eight hours, and people come in and they'll be someone good but they're not right, and you want to tell them they're good, but it sounds like BS, and they're looking at your face to see how they did, what adjustments they need, and it's just so emotionally draining, and it goes on and on.

  Mike Judge

  Eight, People, Awkward

  "Collider Goes to Dinner With Mike Judge". Interview with Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. December 21, 2009.

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• I probably drive casting people crazy because I'm not thinking about actors so much as real people.

  Mike Judge

  Crazy, Real, Thinking

  "Collider Goes to Dinner With Mike Judge". Interview with Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. December 21, 2009.

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• Casting is all about availability, as much as anything else.

  William Monahan

  Availability

  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  David Michod

  Thinking, Jigsaw Puzzles, People

  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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• 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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• One of the great things about this cast is that we've been able to take actors of relatively the same age group that would never usually meet. You know, like bridging the comedy/drama world that for some reason casting directors never really want to bridge or you get into one community and that's kind of it.

  Alison Pill

  Drama, Bridges, Community

  Source: collider.com

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• But, yeah, it was just the regular audition process. There were a couple people telling me about it and that they were looking for the actors, but my manager is pretty good at sorting that out. And, (casting director) Rene Haynes cast me in Into the West, and she's always kept in touch and been a real big supporter of my career.

  Tinsel Korey

  Couple, Real, Careers

  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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