Quotes of: Casting-directors Keyword

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

Samantha Morton

I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

Kevin Hart

My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.

Bella Thorne

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

Barry Pepper

Every film I've ever worked on, and that includes 'Braveheart' and 'Trainspotting,' I've always witnessed a director having a breakdown. Every director will have a day, without exception, where they just can't do it anymore, they don't know what to s...

Peter Mullan

I did 'Never Let Me Go,' and there were amazing people on that. Brilliant writer, director, cast. That was quite special.

Domhnall Gleeson

What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job.

Robbie Coltrane

I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.

Maddie Hasson

I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home.

Norman Fell

As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book.

Bernhard Schlink

I just think there are a lot of celebrities who don't feel that they have a voice. A lot of actors come from a place of fear, and that's just a general statement about actors. You're terrified the casting director won't like you, you're terrified the...

George Clooney

When I realized that nothing is perfect and no one is perfect, I was able to overcome my initial fears. I was holding myself to some weird standard that I was putting outside of myself, i.e., the director or casting director - they're not expecting p...

Vinessa Shaw

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.

Corbin Bernsen

I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'

Carla Gallo

The casting directors that were aware of 'The Real World' looked at me as a joke. It was so hard to get away from that.

Jamie Chung

You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with you.

Beth Henley

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

Steven Spielberg

My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.

Jay Roach

When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.

Maximilian Schell

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.

Alain Ducasse

Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting will happen.

Nicole Ari Parker