Quotes About Selection

Choosing players in any sport is an imperfect science.

I keep saying this, but the most important part of directing is casting, and the rest of it is pretty easy.

Choices are a very important part of our lives.

Freedom comes with the impossibility of choosing.

The people I choose to work with, I work with because I'm already impressed with them, you know?

There's an impression that actors make a lot of choices. I just take what's there.

In fact, I'll be taking a lot of Cathy Gale with me. I expect that was why I was chosen for the part.

I'm an incompetent consumer. I have two settings: Buy and Don't Buy.

I have told the PCB that I want total independence to work with a free mind and pick the best players, and they have assured me it will be done.

But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent.

I don't think I will ever make my all-time greatest India team. You cannot compare one era with another, as they will be different.

In the social sciences, "survivorship bias" is the common mistake of noting only those things that made it through some selection process while overlooking those that didn't.

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning... and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

we try to describe the path from then to now, and in doing so select for our accounts the elements in a once indeterminate situation that appear to have led to the future outcome.

Adam probably regarded Eve as the woman of his choice, and exacted a certain gratitude for the distinction of his preference.

My selection process is based on "three Cs": first character, then competence, and finally chemistry with me and with the rest of the team. Character. Competence. Chemistry.

There are so many artists, so many songs, so many producers, that it's hard to keep track of whose music is worthwhile.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

If you draft a player to be a backup, why did you draft him? You're drafting a guy because you think he's worthy of being drafted at that spot, but you're also drafting him because you think he can compete. If you're going to say, 'This guy's a backup,' - really? That doesn't make any sense to me.

Bill Murray, we've got to get people worthy to be on the screen with him, as opposed to just a bunch of random... with no disrespect... but a bunch of random local actors.

I don't play everything I write. I mean, everything I write is not that good. I bring out into the world the ones I think that are really worthy of an audience's attention.

I do not choose characters because I think, 'Wow, that woman is so strong.' I chose these characters with utmost conviction because I think they were realistic enough to exist, and I really liked the scripts.

We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I've done that many times, and it can improve the script but also wreck a perfectly good scene.

I just always wanted to sit in a casting session and see all of the train wrecks that come in.