Quotes About Casting

Great actors help. Every project is different. Sometimes it's completely open, and I've been able to cast who I've wanted. And then sometimes people want a certain kind of actor.

Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good.

A New York casting director, who shall remain nameless, once said to me, 'Marcia, you have what I call the flaring-nostril look, and until you get something done about it, you will never, ever work.'

I don't like the sterility of the casting office.

My job is to kind of nudge them. Who said it, where, like, '90% of the job is casting,' so all I do is try to come to set and focus on getting all the best shots to cover the story; that's really it.

I think for my casting of 'Pati Patni Aur Woh' the makers saw my ad film which I did for a brand and they decided to cast me in the film.

When I was thinking of casting this, I thought, What roles would Sellers be playing now?

I was being flirted with for 'Modern Family,' which my wife still hasn't let me live down, but it's one of those things where that show is so brilliant because the casting couldn't be any more perfect. It wouldn't have been right for me, and I wouldn't have been right for it.

Casting is very, very important.

People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.'

Sometimes it's all about the casting.

I'll write a character with a certain actor in mind, but then once I start casting, I have to forget about who I pictured.

I always used to say, as a director, that I could make anybody good in a movie if you found the right part. It all comes down to casting.

I think one of the biggest jobs of being a director is getting the casting right.

We've always had a simple philosophy in casting. We don't care if somebody's a big star or a little star. We just want the best possible actor for the part.

What a casting director does is they're a connector.

When you do casting in Hollywood, it's always the same question: 'Who is available?'

Before I was cast for 'Brothers,' we all knew that Karan Johar was looking for an actress for to play a mother's role. I never thought that he would think of casting me.

I have a very simple philosophy when it comes to casting, and it really is casting the best person for the role.

My mom is a casting director, which is pretty awesome.

Casting is an art, and if you're interested in people, like I am, casting is essential.

I'd make a terrible casting director.

I always quite like the idea of casting against type when I'm looking for and trying to understand who a character is.

We have a particular philosophy in the casting room that we don't really tell the actors - the actors tell us.