Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up. — Alfred Hitchcock
Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it. — Steven Bochco
Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed. — Elia Kazan
Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be. — Helen Mirren
You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk. — Ian Mckellen
I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner. — Jude Law
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world. — Alan Rickman
When I first met my agent, I said, "If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette." — Tia Carrere
A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have. — Natasha Richardson
There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who's Mary Astor? — Mary Astor
On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors. — Aisha Tyler
Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality. — Lee Strasberg
Short Casting Directors Quotes
A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly. — Kevin Bacon
I'm getting positive feedback for my acting so we'll see if any other interesting parts come up. — Johnny Vegas
The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart. — Bette Davis
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard. — Billy Wilder
Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a broadway musical. — Julia Barr
The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story. — Rachel Griffiths
Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater. — Shirley Knight
Casting Directors Image Quotes
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
Casting Director Quotes
I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles. — Helena Bonham Carter
Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view. — Steven Spielberg
I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it! — Maddie Hasson
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
I often go to lunch meetings with my agent, a gallerist or a casting director, but if not, I stay at home and prepare my own food because I love to cook. Im great at pasta, fish and nice salads. — Jordi Molla
I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table. — Debbie Allen
You are the director of your own life story. Don't cast idiots or people will walk out during your 2nd act. — Dane Cook
Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.
I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game. — Bob Balaban
I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent. — Randy Harrison
I got an internship with the casting director of The Girl Next Door. I would hold the clipboard and help them in their casting sessions and get them lunch. — Olivia Wilde
Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard. — Barry Pepper
Directors Looking For Actors Quotes
I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before. — Aaron Eckhart
I look for something that grabs me and that's heartfelt, and that's coming from a good place. I want to work with good actors and with directors that I can learn from. — Harry Treadaway
You hear stories about directors using manipulation to get actors to do certain things, but I think when you're working with professional actors, it's all about trust. They can do anything you want, it's just a matter of them understanding what you're looking for, and the reason why. — Darren Aronofsky
Look, a lot of directors were actors, even if they were unsuccessful actors which I think is helpful. I think it's a really helpful thing for a director to have experienced that. It helps you know how to talk to actors and how to get what you need from them. — Grant Heslov
Theatre Directors Quotes
I hate the word 'production'...it's a ceremony, it's a ritual...you should go out of the theatre stronger and more human than when you went in. — Ariane Mnouchkine
Good theatre draws the energies out of the place where it is and gives it back as joie de vivre. — Joan Littlewood
I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium. — Christopher Eccleston
I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room. — James Denton
Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act. — James Agate
I have walked many times around the world and each time it's different from the last one. It feels a little bit like I am a theatrical director, creating a theatre in space. It's really a theater in the sky. But of course the World Trade Center is certainly the most well-known of my productions. — Philippe Petit
There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies. — Sean Penn
I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director. — Mel Smith
On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre. — Andrzej Wajda
Secure writers don't sell first drafts. They patiently rewrite until the script is as director-ready, as actor-ready as possible. Unfinished work invites tampering, while polished, mature work seals its integrity. — Robert McKee
Directing Actors Quotes
My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful. — Satyajit Ray
Terrorism is a tactic in which the primary objective is to produce fear, rather than direct harm. Terrorist attacks are, first and foremost, psychological operations designed to alter behavior amongst the terrorized in a way that the actors believe will serve them. — Bret Weinstein
Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction, etc...) and use the camera in order to reproduce; those that employ the resources of cinematography and use the camera to create — Robert Bresson
Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct. — Beth Henley
Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do. — Eric Stoltz
Of all the things I've done in life, directing a motion picture is the most beautiful. It's the most exciting and the nearest than an interpretive craftsman, such as an actor can possibly get to being a creator. — Laurence Olivier
I've never been a puppeteer, I conceive and I write and I design and I direct. And not just puppets. I direct actors, I direct dancers, I direct singers, I direct films. I also direct puppeteers. I'm really a theatre maker, but there's not a word for that. — Julie Taymor
Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing. — Morris Chestnut
Don Siegel last advice to me was 'Don't short yourself.' He said the tendency is when an actor's directing is to kind of you want to work on everybody else but you're going to short yourself. He said, take the time to do a good job with yourself so that you're satisfied with it. — Clint Eastwood
I've acted with all types, I've directed all types. What you want to understand as a director, is what actors have to offer. They'll get at it however they get at it. If you can understand that, you can get your work done. — Ron Howard
I like to be cast well and then I like to be left alone. And good directors, that's generally what they do when they hire you because you have something that's useful to the part, and then they leave you alone. The times that I've run into trouble is when, very rare actually, but you get hired and then there's some sort of makeover involved. — Christopher Walken
Your actors need to trust you as a director, but normally, I think you just need to have an open communication between the actors and the director. I think the director needs to really paint his or her vision to the cast and let them know the kind of mood that he or she is making. I think that's very important. — James Wan
As I continue through my acting career I tend to wish I were a little shorter and a few pounds lighter so casting directors would call me in for more diverse roles. — James Preston Rogers
Honestly, I love television. I love the idea of going to work every day and getting to know your crew and having a rapport with your directors and having a family of cast. — Britt Robertson
My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it. — Alicia Vikander
If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew. — Catherine Keener
I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running. — R. Lee Ermey
When I came out here, my manager thought that casting directors might think I'm a girl, and when I did Threat Matrix, they thought Jamie was a little light. — James Denton
With the most interesting directors, the cast comes together to make something magical that nobody counted on. — Susan Sarandon
You can't fake comedy - it's not like a movie, where a director can just cast a pretty face. — Chris Rock
The Dead was cool, It's a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him, then they called my agent and had me come in and read for it and they wanted to use me. — Matthew McGrory
I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing. — Scott Speedman
I've always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don't see me as just Harry Potter, I'll be OK. People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a huge debt. They're letting me prove that I'm serious about this. — Daniel Radcliffe
Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are. — Christian Bale
There are only three reasons to do a movie: the cast, the director, the role. Like I say, you live in a minute of screen time, but to prepare for the minute takes much more than a day. You'd better be excited about what those moments are, even if they're the hardest moments. Or the smallest. — Val Kilmer
As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers. — B. D. Wong
The joy for me of television is the sort of family feeling of being involved with an ensemble - the cast and the crew and the director of photography and the guys in the camera truck - and you're all coming together. There's a great feeling when that is a successful unit, a successful family. — Jeffrey Pierce
But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is. — Taylor Hackford
So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide. — Michel Legrand
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. — Jamie Chung
People have nervous tics they don't know about, and I would advise asking around. Ask the casting director, 'Is there something I'm doing?' I would see people unconsciously rocking back and forth. I roll my lips. I bite my lips and roll them. — Olivia Wilde
Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part. — Olivia Wilde
I was very headstrong about wanting to keep my name when I moved to Los Angeles. But casting directors would call my managers and say I was perfect for the part, but my name wasn't marketable - I was a young guy, and had the old man name of Gary. I kept losing jobs because of the name not being marketable, so I changed it to Garrett. — Garrett Clayton
I didn't really know who [Dario Argento] was at the time. I know him now, obviously. But I went in to be an extra on the movie [Two Evil Eyes], and he saw me sitting out waiting to meet the casting director, and he pulled my mother and I into a separate conference room. — Julie Benz
Your agents and your managers will always say stuff to you like, "It's really important to make a good first impression on a casting director. And even though you didn't get that job, because you did well that means they'll keep bringing you back in." But when you really just need a job to pay your rent, that stops being very consoling. — Gillian Jacobs
In any of the big acting cities, there are breakdowns that the casting directors put together for the projects that they're working on and then they get sent out to the agents and stuff like that. It's difficult to find projects, sometimes, unless your agent or manager is submitting you for those specific projects. — Bostin Christopher
I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do. — Larry Mullen
I had great luck with Tim McGraw twice in 'Friday Night Lights' and 'The Kingdom.' I love finding off-beat casting and finding someone you know in one way and you reinvent them in another way. I like doing that as a director. — Peter Berg
Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work. — Rob Lowe
Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you. — Samantha Morton
What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job. — Robbie Coltrane
My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone. — Jay Roach
You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with you. — Beth Henley
After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it's your children. Keep that in mind. — John Ratzenberger
The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting. — Brian De Palma
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