Quotes About Casting

When I auditioned for The Black Canary, I only knew I was reading for a new recruit on team 'Arrow.' It wasn't until I'd booked the role that they told me who I'd be playing.

I got very lucky with 'Harry Potter.' I got that role because I'm a ginger! Red hair was my only qualification!

I can recognize a good actor. I can recognize someone that can convey emotion and that has the essence and not get lost in the minutia of, 'Well, that person's got red hair, and so does the other.' Some of the decisions in casting that seem so important at the time, until you get on set and you're starting to shoot.

Usually, I write my scripts first, then think of the actors, or I have a reference of someone.

A week before shooting, they told me, You don't have the part, yet. We're still trying to find a handicapped kid who can act. Either that or we break your legs.

When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'

I could not have been happier with 'The Lincoln Lawyer.' They got the essence, and the casting, starting with McConaughey, was just perfect.

Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.

The casting process starts off really scary, especially when you're trying to find a Harriet Tubman.

Casting is what I put at the top of the heap in importance to any show that I do.

Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part.

In any film, there are 10 male roles for 1 female role, especially in the action films. They're heavy with the guys.

My directors feel that, because of my height, I look better in action sequences.

I don't find it very helpful to know who else is going up for stuff, generally.

I am pretty sure when Kenneth Branagh came up for 'Thor,' nobody at Marvel thought, 'Yes, that Kenneth Branagh is masculine enough to do action: just look at 'Henry V' and 'The Magic Flute.''

I'm not cut out to play a filmi hero. I don't look like a hero.

Filmmakers would compliment my work, but when casting for a heroine, they'd never think of me.

I was never interested in roles where I would have to dance and romance heroines.

I don't really look at genre. I mean, sometimes you might be playing heavies a lot, and you're like, 'Hey, it'd be nice to do a romantic comedy.'

Now that I'm out there and it's known that I'm trans, I think that sometimes might hinder my opportunity in snagging a big cis role.

Gastronomy is my hobby. I'm simply the casting director. Once I've brought all the right people together, it is they who must work together to tell a story.

I had worked with Pranay Dixit in a film, who also hails from Lucknow. I always wanted to cast him for some of my projects as I believe he is brilliant at his craft of an actor.

I used Vamps as a casting couch! I pretty much did, because I was casting 'L!fe Happens' while I was on the set of Vamps, and anybody I had ever worked with, I asked to be in this movie.

I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on 'The Purge' was crucial to that movie working.