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I approach directing from an actor's standpoint.
You're always being cast for what you've been in last.
The most exciting part of the casting process was casting out of Israel, which was a really unique process, mainly done remotely from California, looking at casting tapes.
I've never worried about being typecast - I've only ever worried about being not cast!
Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting
I'm always involved with casting my movies. I have final word on it.
I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly.
There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination.
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.
One thing I'm most proud of, in my movies, is that I think the performances are super-strong, but that's not all me. I think part of it is casting appropriately.
Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike.
Casting, to me, is always the same. It's a very important part of a director's job. I pick people that I sense I'd like to be in a room with and will enjoy the rehearsal process with because that's the best part.
I've said maybe too many times that I'd rather be typecast than not cast at all.
I think that casting is probably the most important thing in television production.
I don't get cast for every job and I understand that.
As I've always said, preproduction is so important. When you cast the actors, you've done much of the work. Now, you may need to guide them a little, take it up or down, have them go faster or slower, but the casting process is crucial.
To be honest, I don't think I'm an actor. I'm a creator - or try to be.
The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story based on who's embodying it.
I love working with actors. If you cast the right person in the right part at the right time, they make you look like a better writer and director than you really are.
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.
If you're cast right you can actually just let yourself go because all your gestures will be right, all your intonations will be right because you just somewhere understand who this person is.
Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.
I tend to get cast as a certain type of quiet, almost introverted person who's strong on the inside, but the characters are so very different I don't see it as any kind of typecasting.
I wouldn't take on the project unless I could have complete creative control in casting.
Casting is very instinctual. I really like to meet people. To me, it's about their essence more than their audition.
An actor has to embody a role.
I've learnt that there's acting for film, acting for theatre, and acting for an audition.
I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.
I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as I enjoy playing a wide variety of characters, from good to bad to ugly to cute - so I have enjoyed of late working in film and television, as well as in theatres of various sizes and shapes.
Obviously when you cast someone who hasn't acted before it can be a massive opportunity for them.
Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business.
An actor works with their soul and their thought.
The casting is very simple actually, but it is very important. You choose the best actor for the role, and you test them and you test them, and you bring them back, and you have to make sure the actors fit the roles.
I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to pigeonhole people, and there's nothing an actor loves more than to do something different.
I'm an actor's director.
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.
Acting doesn't exist in a vacuum. You need the director to have a set of eyes.
I am an actor through and through.
Acting is my job.
When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.
You read a script, you try and think through what is the best, most wide-ranging way of telling the story: who stylistically, character-logically, psychologically fits inside the world of what you're trying to do. A lot of it, when you're casting, is trying to get yourself in the head of a director.
Casting is so important, with any film you do. You have to get actors that you believe will fulfill the promise of the characters that are on the page.
A director should cast a person who fits into their script.
People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.
You have to get the casting right. You have to get the people behind it. Your director might not be the right director for the project. And then, it has to test and those people in that room, wherever they are, have to turn those buttons the right way at the right time.
I'm always cast in these strange men ... that's not me, really.
I don't really know what kind of actor I am.
If you cast wrong, you are in a lot of trouble.
I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.
If you're going to be typed, there are worse molds in which you can be cast.
As an actor, what you really want to do is communicate with people - this is my aim, my principle aim.
I feel that I am a good actor.
I don't tend to get cast in the theatre much. People assume I come with all this baggage. But they do cast me in films. In films, I'm a nobody.
Acting is all I know; being on a set is all I know.
For me, when you're casting known talent, you're not just casting their performances. You're casting the public's relationship with them, their public images to a degree.
I'm a method actor.
I'm a character actor.
As an actor, you need to be versatile. You need to challenge yourself.
I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.
I do so many roles, I can't be typecast.
If you're a young person who wants to become an actor, it's really important to walk into a casting room with a sense of yourself and some life experience. You can really delight a room and have them already choose you before you've even said a word!
I think of myself as an actor.
Anytime you're on camera, 95 percent of whatever character you're playing, unless you're Daniel Day-Lewis - or maybe, no, pretty much just him - you're cast because you're you.
You set up the look, the visual effects and the sets, and that's awesome, but I enjoy the casting most of all. That's where you really get to define the show.
I try not to have too specific notions because it messes up the process later on. I leave it very open to interpretation until I start casting. Everything changes a lot when you start casting. I mean everything.
Acting is in your soul.
You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can't just be yourself because they don't want to hire you.
I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table.
Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.
I'm not acting, but I am acting.
I thought I was an actor playing a wizard. But really, I was a wizard playing an actor.
In general, I have some precise ideas about everything, because the film is completed in my head before we ever start shooting. With casting, I am always present, even for the smallest character.
I know what it's like to wake up thinking you will be able to cast the people who play the starring roles in your life, only to realize that you have to watch it from the audience.
Acting is not my language at all.
Casting is really exciting. With 'Twilight,' I wasn't involved at all with the casting in the original. They kept me in the loop, which was great. They'd be like, 'Hey Kristen Stewart's gonna do it' and I was like, 'Really? Awesome.'
I love this acting stuff.
I think if an actor is right for a role, casting sees that, and the words that are on the page, depending on how it's written, can really help your character develop.
You know how when you read a book and it becomes a movie, and it's different than you pictured? In some ways, acting is a lot like that.
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.
What you try to do, as an actor, is just make it work somehow.
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.
There's the craft of acting, and then there's a quality. There's a quality that someone has.
The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.
I'm a character actor at heart.
I guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of types of productions - I haven't felt much typecasting.
I am not an actress. I can only play me - on and off the screen.
I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.
When a casting agent sees me, he kind of knows what he's getting.
I probably drive casting people crazy because I'm not thinking about actors so much as real people.
I'm a character actress.
I always look at people and think how I would cast them.
You are the director of your own life story. Don't cast idiots or people will walk out during your 2nd act.
As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.
Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.
I'm an actor. Actors are supposed to act.
Casting is 65 percent of directing.
No, the type-casting didn't happen until after Star Trek. I don't think that you get typecast until you've been cast!
It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast.
Despite all the variables and advise, like love and marriage it seemed to me that learning to cast ought to be a lot easier than it was.