Casting Quotes - Page 18

• This is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists in its own right and must be recognised for what it is ... So joy can be joy and sorrow can be sorrow, with neither of them casting either light or shadow on the other.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Loss, Light, Joy

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• The Bible has come under fire for making woman the fall guy in man's cosmic drama. But in casting a male conspirator, the serpent, as God's enemy, Genesis hedges and does not take its misogyny far enough. The Bible defensively swerves from God's true opponent, chthonian nature. The serpent is not outside Eve but in her. She is the garden and the serpent.

  Camille Paglia

  Drama, Fall, Men

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.38, Canongate Books

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• Personally, I don't tend to go into casting sessions. I try not to have a preconceived notion in my head because it just reduces my options or ability to find someone cool.

  Summer Glau

  Trying, Ability, Notion

  Source: collider.com

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• Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are instructed in religious matters before they can reason about them, and consequently that all such instruction is nothing else but filling the tender mind of a child with prejudices.

  George Berkeley

  Education, Religious, Children

  George Berkeley (1837). “Works: Account of His Life and Letters”, p.122

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• One of the things that I really love about doing a film is working with actors and the whole casting process. I feel I'm not looking for actors. I feel I'm looking for characters. If the characters come from Bollywood, fine. If they come from Indian theater, perfect.

  Deepa Mehta

  Character, Perfect, Bollywood

  Source: collider.com

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• Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting.

  Craig Claiborne

  Food, Cooking, Giants

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• 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

  Jobs, Order, Issues

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• Well, there's a Book that says we're all sinners and I at least chose a sin that's made quite a few people happier than they were before they met me, a sin that's left me with very little time to consider other extremely popular moral misdemeanors, like usury, intolerance, bearing false tales, extortion, racial bigotry, and the casting of that first stone.

  Sally Stanford

  Book, People, Stones

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• There's a difference in our ages [with Leonardo DiCaprio], but we were both in the same sort of position [on The Quick and the Death movie].Everyone below us in a casting position were all these really famous character actors like Keith David. And they were looking at the two of us going, 'Who are these guys?' So that naturally kind of put us together in a way where we'd just hang out together because we didn't care about status. We just wanted to enjoy the experience. The two things that have changed about Leo [ DiCaprio] since that time: he can drink legally and he's no longer a virgin.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Character, Two, Differences

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• Modern marriage is first and foremost a romantic and private union, but the tax laws and inheritance laws and religious implications that still surround this institution indicate that marriage has evolved without casting away its earlier purposes or assumptions. It's like we just keep building on this thing, piling new advancements on the old model.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Religious, Law, Advancement

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• I spend a lot of time in preproduction working with authors, and a lot of time in postproduction.: editing, music, all that sort of stuff. Casting. On the set there's not a lot for me to do.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Editing, Stuff

  "'Synecdoche, New York' Director Charlie Kaufman". Interview with Howard Feinstein, www.indiewire.com. October 24, 2008.

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• There's a time for casting silver; a time for casting cannon. If that isn't in the red, it should be!

  Paul Revere

  Red, Silver, Should

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• Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in.

  John Selden

  Devil, Firsts, Casts

  John Selden, Samuel Weller Singer, Edward FitzGerald (1860). “Table Talk: With a Biographical Pref. and Notes”, p.144

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• Instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree, and, to take more shame to ourselves, we cherish them because they are prejudices; and the longer they have lasted and the more generally they have prevailed, the more we cherish them. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Age, Degrees

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• All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.

  Erica Jong

  Book, Fall, Reading

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.235, Penguin

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• True taste is forever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy.

  John Ruskin

  Reading, Feet, Hands

  John Ruskin (1849). “Of ideas of beauty”, p.25

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• [On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: "People should have ignored the five racist idiots.

  Nina Jacobson

  Should Have, Games, People

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• One casting director told me, 'You're the next Leonardo DiCaprio,' and when I heard that, I said, 'Let's talk about how I don't want anything to do with being like Leo.' He's an amazing actor, but the films we're pushing to do are different. I'm going my own way--in a big way.

  Devon Sawa

  Next, Pushing, Directors

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• So many people have said this, but it's true: 95 percent of what I do as a director is casting and getting people who can bear the load of what you're asking them to do and creating this emotionally safe environment.

  Lynn Shelton

  Safe Environment, Creating, People

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• I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Caring, Soul, Shadow

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• A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the costumes and make-up, the actors' reading of a line or emphasis of a word, the choice of lens and the pace of the cutting - these are all part of the translation.

  David Nicholls

  Reading, Cutting, Numbers

  "David Nicholls: Adapting Great Expectations for the screen" by David Nicholls, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2012.

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• For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.

  Sophocles

  Men, Worship, Wells

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• It's very difficult to do street casting with girls, because a beautiful girl in real life won't necessarily have the silhouette or the presence needed for a show.

  Christophe Lemaitre

  Beautiful, Girl, Real

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Andre Holland

  Reading, People, Directors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you asked central casting in Hollywood for somebody to play the role of President, they'd send you John Connally.

  Phil Crane

  Art, Play, President

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