Casting Quotes - Page 8

• Men grow up expecting to be the hero of their own story. Women grow up expecting to be the supporting actress in somebody else's I refuse to burn my energy adding extra magic and sparkle to other people’s lives to get them to love me. I’m busy casting spells for myself.

  Laurie Penny

  Growing Up, Hero, Men

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I believe really deeply in the pilot process because you learn things about tone and casting.

  John Landgraf

  Believe, Pilots, Tone

  Source: collider.com

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• Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

  Plato

  Doe, Deceiving, Spells

  Plato, John M. Cooper, D. S. Hutchinson (1997). “Complete Works”, p.1049, Hackett Publishing

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• 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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• I think a lot of people vote in fear. People like Donald Trump are good at casting this shadow of fear over people, making them believe if they don't vote for him then the terrorists are going to get them or whatever. All his ways are to scare people to vote for him. It's so sad.

  Jim James

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.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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• 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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• I guess my height has hurt me as much as it's helped me. In comedy people don't mind casting tall women next to shorter men. It adds to the humour.

  Allison Janney

  Hurt, Men, People

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• Where God has put a period, the devil puts a question mark, casting doubt.

  Steven J Lawson

  Doubt, Devil, Periods

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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 pride myself on doing character-driven movies and, when my movies have worked, it's been because of the right casting and the right character, and it just clicks.

  Doug Liman

  Character, Pride, Driven

  Source: collider.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 recently in Israel doing my work and casting for models in the streets of Haifa and Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, meeting young Israelis and Palestinians and Falasha, Ethiopian Jews who had migrated to Israel in the '70s. They're obsessed with Bob Marley. They're obsessed with Kanye West. They're obsessed with resistance culture, people who find that they're not necessarily comfortable in their own personal and national skin.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Israel, People, Skins

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The only real struggle [in Doctor Strange] was casting spells - learning all these amazing things with fingers, and then remembering what to say at the same time. They would say, 'So you have to put your hands there, not there because the light is going to go [MAKES SOUND] so that kind of masks... but it was all good.

  Tilda Swinton

  Real, Struggle, Doctors

  Source: southernbellasways.com

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• It's really cool going into a casting room and having them know who you are and the work that you've done.

  Atticus Shaffer

  Done, Rooms, Really Cool

  Source: jimhalterman.com

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