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It's really weird casting babies; it's kind of the dark underbelly of Hollywood, to meet babies and judge them.
You know, I have never had a casting couch proposition in my life. I thought there was something wrong with me.
For me, casting is very instinctive, and if I don't feel good about it, I just can't go ahead and make the film.
We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.
I have a very simple philosophy when it comes to casting, and it really is casting the best person for the role.
Casting is a convoluted kind of trip. No one likes to be typed - even if you're a cab driver, or whatever you do.
There's no better gift to an actor than when you walk into an audition, and the casting director is your partner.
As filmmakers are nervous while casting, they naturally tend to sign actors depending on what they've seen before.
But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway.
I loved eating and I did put on weight. I never actually felt fat until I started going for castings, for auditions.
I went to an audition the other day, they were casting 13 people to be clouds, 14 people showed up, it was overcast.
Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.
David Lynch saw my picture in a casting agent's office in Seattle. I got a call to see him, and the rest is history.
Casting is very instinctual. I really like to meet people. To me, it's about their essence more than their audition.
I can't even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars.
Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.
Till 'Kaho Na Pyaar Hai,' I was involved in everything from casting to scripting. Then I shifted to a separate house.
I think that casting shows are pretty good at teaching someone how to present themselves and how to handle the media.
No, the type-casting didn't happen until after Star Trek. I don't think that you get typecast until you've been cast!
I do notice that when I come in to meet casting people, they love that I'm Australian. Maybe it's our good work ethic.
I'm flatchested, I'm short, I'm brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as a 'beauty.'
I always quite like the idea of casting against type when I'm looking for and trying to understand who a character is.
To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.
I think the more open-minded people we have - like casting directors and producers - the better things are going to be.
The casting directors that were aware of 'The Real World' looked at me as a joke. It was so hard to get away from that.
I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.
When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.
There's definitely been times when I've been on sets and I was the bigger model in the room, where they're casting girls.
Music has to be treated in the same way as set design, casting, or choice of location - it has to start at the same time.
Casting directors don't necessarily want a more recognizable commercial face. Sometimes, they want a lesser known person.
I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home.
I'll write a character with a certain actor in mind, but then once I start casting, I have to forget about who I pictured.
Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.
Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock
I do more of ensemble casting, roles that are different. In one film I'm playing a villain, in the other I'm playing a son.
People are catching on to diversity and colour-blind casting. For me, it meant turning down certain work and making a stand.
I worked in feature film casting right out of college and spent a lot of time working with actors, directors, and producers.
I loved doing casting because I love actors, and I am very conscious of what actors do. But I always wanted to be a producer.
Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.
If there is anybody who can give you a combination of quality and reasonable budget, innovative content and casting, it is me!
I was particularly stunned by the casting of Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler.
You have to remind casting directors out here that you don't just do one thing. There's a lot of people who do just one thing.
As actors, when you can't be in the room with the casting director or the producers, you put yourself on tape and send it off.
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.
Sooner or later, directors in Germany will start casting without regard to where a person is from. It shouldn't matter anymore.
I don't know how much of the 'casting couch' exists in the industry, as I've not seen it myself. I'm glad that I've not had to.
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.
Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.
Our leaders will serve the common good with better laws and better actions only when we serve it first, by casting better votes.