“I think as far as straight actors playing gay roles, "Brokeback Mountain" was a big breakthrough. I'm pretty sure when they were casting that movie that - I think the story is, like you know, 10 to 15 other actors turned it down.” ThinkingKnowsStoriesBigsActorsRolesLike YouGayMountainCastingBreakthroughBrokeback Mountain Author:James Franco
“I'm proud of the way I rearrange and put things together, like a chef who makes a great meal, or a filmmaker who puts together a story - it's casting, editing, cinematography.” WayStoriesTogetherProudFilmmakerMealsChefEditingCastingCinematography Author:Bonnie Raitt
“The casting of any film is around 60% of the film, but it's also about the right casting insight. It's a bit like a house of cards, everyone has to match up in a certain way so the whole structure is grounded. So that's essential, and yes, it's about finding the right people and the right constellation around the lead character.” PeopleWayWholeCharacterFilmCertainHouseBitsEssentialsFindingsStructureInsightCardsGroundedCastingConstellationsHouse Of CardsLead Characters Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“It is so great to go to a casting director and have them wanting to talk about the show that you are in. It's such a great icebreaker. It just makes the environment so much more relaxed.” ShowsEnvironmentDirectorsRelaxedCastingCasting Directors Author:Nathalie Emmanuel
“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.” TryingMeanProcessNotionMessInterpretationCastingThings Change Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“When I started out as an activist, the issues were much clearer. There's advantage to the new media, but on the other hand, you miss the ability to frame an issue that you had when there were just three TV networks: CBS, NBC, and ABC. So the whole world could see the same police dogs. The same Bull Connor and his white tank. Now you've got narrow-casting. The media is all fragmented. It's so hard to get people to focus in a sustained way.” PeopleWorldWayHardWholeHandsThreeAbilityWhiteIssuesFocusMediaDogMissingTvsAdvantagePoliceWhole WorldActivistCastingBullsTanksFragmentedNbcNew Media Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“After you do a showcase for agency managers and casting directors and you get this folder and some people had a folder that was thick and some people had a folder that was thin. And there's no fairness to it because it's not a fair business.” PeopleDirectorsFairsManagersAgencyThickFairnessCastingShowcaseCasting DirectorsFolders Author:Gillian Jacobs
“Your agents and your managers will always say stuff to you like, "It's really important to make a good first impression on a casting director. And even though you didn't get that job, because you did well that means they'll keep bringing you back in." But when you really just need a job to pay your rent, that stops being very consoling.” NeedsFirstsWellsMeanImportantJobsStuffPayDirectorsImpressionAgentsManagersCastingYou Like ItFirst ImpressionConsolingCasting DirectorsGood First Impression Author:Gillian Jacobs
“My only real daydreamy casting over the years has been Natalie Portman for Denna. She's an amazing actress, and Denna is going to be one of the hardest characters to pull off.” YearsHas BeensRealCharacterActressesHardestCasting Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“When I was a teenager, I thought I wanted to be an actor. I worked on an Indian soap opera that was my first exposure to production. But I quickly became disillusioned by acting and seeing that in the movies I loved and the TV I loved, no one looked like me. There weren't going to be any leading roles that would be interested in casting someone with my face.” FirstsWould BeWantedFacesActorsActingRolesSeeingTvsProductionsLike MeTeenagerIndianOperaCastingExposureSoapSoap OperasDisillusioned Author:Meera Menon
“I don't know if it's rare, but from my experience, I think Suits does a lot more casting off of auditions than other shows.” IfsThinkingKnowsDoeShowsSuitsAuditionsCastingCasting Off Author:Aaron Korsh
“You might be someone's favorite, but you might not be someone else's favorite. I will tell you that there was a [casting notice] that said "Tracee Ellis Ross type," but [the producers] didn't want to see me. I've been in this industry long enough to know that even if someone wants to promise me something, it doesn't mean that it's going to happen. There are so many things at play. But it was flattering and exciting.” IfsKnowsWantMeanLongSaidEnoughPlayMightHappensTypeIndustryPromiseExcitingProducersCastingFlatteringPromise Me Author:Tracee Ellis Ross
“When I'm casting a picture, I think who I'd like to see in it if I was sitting in a theater. Who would surprise me?” IfsThinkingSittingTheaterSurpriseCastingSurprise Me Author:Curtis Hanson
“[Sylvester] Stallone and I were in a meeting for Rocky Balboa. We were laughing about something, and he looks at my mouth and says to the casting director, "Wow, your lip even hooks down like mine does." Then he looked at the casting director and nodded, and I guess that was the nod of saying, "Hire this kid." So yeah, I have a really crooked mouth. They don't work, but I can feel everything.” FeelsLooksDoeI CanKidsLaughingMinesDirectorsMouthsYeahMeetingsLipsWowHookCastingCrookedCasting Directors Author:Milo Ventimiglia
“I was recently in Israel doing my work and casting for models in the streets of Haifa and Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, meeting young Israelis and Palestinians and Falasha, Ethiopian Jews who had migrated to Israel in the '70s. They're obsessed with Bob Marley. They're obsessed with Kanye West. They're obsessed with resistance culture, people who find that they're not necessarily comfortable in their own personal and national skin.” PeopleYoungCultureStreetsComfortableModelsSkinsMeetingsWestJewIsraelResistanceObsessedBobPalestinianCastingJerusalemMarley Author:Kehinde Wiley
“You'll find that street casting in America is a lot different than street casting in different nations.” DifferentAmericaNationsStreetsCasting Author:Kehinde Wiley
“Whereas I remember being in Dakar, in Senegal, where I have my third studio, and street casting, and I remember looking at the faces of the young men that we were speaking to through translators and so on, showing them the books. Complete - completely different response.” MenBookDifferentRememberFacesYoungStreetsThirdsResponseStudiosYoung ManCastingTranslators Author:Kehinde Wiley
“Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well.” WellsJobsDirectorsPercentHonestlyFiftyCasting Author:Ransom Riggs
“[Frida Farell] also wanted the film to serve as a cautionary tale for young women - to say, "Be careful when an attractive man asks you to go to a casting or a photo shoot, because it might be a demon in disguise."” MenMightWantedFilmYoungAsksCarefulTalesAttractiveDemonBe CarefulDisguiseYoung WomenCastingPhoto ShootsFridaCautionary TalesAttractive Man Author:Rudolf Buitendach
“I started going to castings a few years ago when people didn't know who I was. People forget about [that time] because they've seen my career - the path that it's had in the last couple years.” PeopleKnowsYearsLastsForgetCareersPathCoupleYears AgoCasting Author:Gigi Hadid
“I'd say probably the most epic experience was before the Victoria's Secret show - I think it was before the casting - and I saw Naomi Campbell at a party. I was saying that I was nervous about my walk and she said "Come to my hotel tomorrow and we're going to practice." So I went in New York and we practiced in the hallway of her hotel with all of the hotel staff watching. She just said "Don't even flinch. Keep going!" It was hilarious, but I think that was kind of a confidence booster.” ThinkingKindSaidShowsWalksPartySecretPracticeSawsNew YorkTomorrowNervousHotelKeep GoingStaffEpicCastingVictoriaHallwaysVictoria's SecretMost Epic Author:Gigi Hadid
“When you're casting, you get a page or two - just enough to do the scene. Now that you're in the world, you get the whole script.” WorldTwoEnoughWholeScenePagesScriptsCasting Author:Mike Colter
“Usually when you start the characters, the first thing is the script. Your design work is about telling the story. It's later that casting comes into play, but it's a huge component.” FirstsPlayCharacterStoriesDesignHugeScriptsCastingComponentsDesign Work Author:Alexandra Byrne
“I was very headstrong about wanting to keep my name when I moved to Los Angeles. But casting directors would call my managers and say I was perfect for the part, but my name wasn't marketable - I was a young guy, and had the old man name of Gary. I kept losing jobs because of the name not being marketable, so I changed it to Garrett.” MenJobsYoungGuyNamesPerfectChangedDirectorsLosingMovedManagersLos AngelesOld ManCastingGaryYoung GuysCasting DirectorsHeadstrong Author:Garrett Clayton
“You don't have the economy of scale of building a set once and casting once. You blow up the world, basically, at the end of each episode.” WorldEndsEconomyBuildingBlowScalesEpisodesCasting Author:Charlie Brooker
“There are so many things that go into casting that you just never know.” KnowsCasting Author:Johnathon Schaech
“That's a very privileged attitude and I think the ignorance is so strong there. When people say, "Oh please, I don't want to hear that conversation," it's because it makes them uncomfortable." But that's because they think it's all okay. If it was racist, I would move onto someone whose mind I could change, but it's mostly ignorance. So when someone says, "Oh, it doesn't matter," I not only make designers responsible but casting directors and modeling agencies for not pushing those other girls on to the designers.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantMindMatterMovingGirlStrongAttitudeIgnorancePleaseDirectorsConversationOkayResponsibleUncomfortableAgencyDesignerRacistPushingPrivilegedCastingModelingOther GirlCasting Directors Author:Bethann Hardison
“It wasn't exactly a cattle call. I had an agent, and they were seeing people for the parts, so my agent said, "Here's the script, see if there's anything that speaks to you." And I did, and I called my agent and said, "I think this character Data is kind of interesting," and she said, "Well, okay, I'll get you the appointment with Junie Lowry." I had to read with the casting agent first, 'cause nobody really knew me then. Then after that, I had, I think, six different auditions for the role. And finally it was me [on Star Trek].” PeopleIfsThinkingFirstsWellsKindSaidDifferentCharacterSpeakStarsCausesInterestingRolesSeeingSixOkayScriptsAgentsDataAuditionsCastingAppointmentsCattle Author:Brent Spiner
“The only real struggle [in Doctor Strange] was casting spells - learning all these amazing things with fingers, and then remembering what to say at the same time. They would say, 'So you have to put your hands there, not there because the light is going to go [MAKES SOUND] so that kind of masks... but it was all good.” KindRealHandsLightRememberSoundStruggleStrangeDoctorsFingersMaskSpellsCastingAmazing Things Author:Tilda Swinton
“It's really cool going into a casting room and having them know who you are and the work that you've done.” KnowsDoneRoomsWho You AreCastingReally Cool Author:Atticus Shaffer
“There is no one who can move and mime and clown like Bill [Irwin].And Aubrey Plaza, she gets to embody all these different characters. That's what's exciting about this show [X-men], is the unusual casting.” MenDifferentCharacterShowsMovingExcitingBillsUnusualCastingClownX MenDifferent CharactersMime Author:Lauren Shuler Donner
“I feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.” FeelsImportantAspectCasting Author:Ben Affleck
“I've never, ever, in my entire life, been upset at a casting choice.” ChoicesUpsetCasting Author:Bryce Dallas Howard
“Have you or haven't you built a good school? Haven't you improved living conditions? Aren't you a bureaucrat? Have you helped to make our labor more effective, our life more cultured? Such will be the criteria with which millions of voters will approach candidates, casting away those who are unfit, striking them off lists, advancing better ones, nominating them for elections.” SchoolMillionsOur LivesConditionsHavensApproachBuiltLaborElectionListsCandidatesVotersCastingCriteriaAdvancingBureaucratsGood SchoolLiving ConditionsNominating Author:Joseph Stalin
“Since Israel would rather re-experience Masada than renounce the core Zionist objective of establishing a Jewish state, the only one-state "solution" on the horizon of realistic possibilities is an Israeli "one state" that fulfills the messianic nationalist ideal embraced by deep Zionism, likely consisting of completing the expansionist process of recent years by incorporating all or most of the West Bank, casting Gaza adrift, consolidating control over Jerusalem, and transferring as many West Bank Palestinians as possible to Jordan.” YearsStatesProcessPossibilitySolutionsIdealsWestIsraelCoreObjectivesHorizonRealisticPalestinianCastingIsraeliJordanJerusalemRenounceZionistGazaZionismCompletingAdriftIncorporating Author:Richard A. Falk
“Those first memories of my modeling career are not my favorite. At the beginning, it was tough. I was very lucky, my career took off very quickly, but still. All the memories I have about first casting in general - they're not nice. Just because there's so many girls, so much competition. I don't blame those casting directors, they see so many girls and they can't be nice to everybody. But you don't feel like a person, you feel like a number.” FeelsFirstsPersonsStillsGirlMemoriesNumbersCareersNiceLuckyDirectorsToughBlameCompetitionMy FavoriteBeing NiceCastingModelingCasting Directors Author:Bianca Balti
“I didn't really know who [Dario Argento] was at the time. I know him now, obviously. But I went in to be an extra on the movie [Two Evil Eyes], and he saw me sitting out waiting to meet the casting director, and he pulled my mother and I into a separate conference room.” KnowsTwoEyeMotherEvilWaitingRoomsSawsDirectorsSittingExtrasCastingConferencesTwo EvilsCasting DirectorsEvil Eye Author:Julie Benz
“I worked so hard on that role [of Debra in Dexter]. And I barely worked on Rita. But I read for casting - both parts - and they said, "That's great, we're going to bring you in for producers." So I read for some producers - both parts - and they said, "That's great, we're going to bring you in to meet the creator." And I went in, and as soon as I walked in the room, he looked at me and he said, "Oh my god, you're our Rita!" And I said, "No! I'm Deb! I'm a total Deb!" "No, you're Rita!".” SaidHardRoomsRolesCreatorProducersThey SaidCasting Author:Julie Benz
“It's very difficult to put together an independent movie and a lot of times people really don't hire casting directors for that. Instead, they look for people that they've seen in other movies or they're friends with.” PeopleLooksTogetherDifficultDirectorsIndependentCastingCasting Directors Author:Barbara Crampton
“As matters now stand, the veto seems inappropriate, given the absence of any deep ideological split between major states, and definitely constrains the war-prevention mission of the UN. Similarly, the present permanent five are out of touch with geopolitical realities, and constitute a remnant of a West-centric world order, casting a shadow of illegitimacy across the activities of the most important organ of global policymaking in the UN System.” WorldImportantWarMatterStatesRealitySeemsOrderGivenFiveActivityMajorsShadowWestMissionsAbsencePermanentOrgansSplitsCastingIdeologicalWorld OrderInappropriatePreventionRemnantsConstrainVetoGeopolitical Author:Richard A. Falk
“By putting a border line between life and death, we separate the world of death from our world of life, casting the dead away into the "world of oblivion".” WorldLinesBordersLife And DeathOur WorldCastingOblivionBetween Life And Death Author:Yasumasa Morimura
“I didn't watch any films. This film, The Proposal, had it all in the script. Once all the pieces, once I met Anne Fletcher and I knew what she wanted and that we wanted the same things, and once they said Ryan Reynolds was on board and once the casting came together, you saw what it wanted to be.” SaidWantedTogetherFilmWatchesSawsPiecesMetsScriptsBoardsThey SaidCastingProposal Author:Sandra Bullock
“I think a lot of people vote in fear. People like Donald Trump are good at casting this shadow of fear over people, making them believe if they don't vote for him then the terrorists are going to get them or whatever. All his ways are to scare people to vote for him. It's so sad.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayBelieveTrumpShadowVoteTerroristScareCastingSo Sad Author:Jim James
“When the play is still evolving I try to be at rehearsal as often as possible, and part of that casting process. You find new things when the language is living in different people's mouths.” PeopleTryingStillsDifferentPlayLanguageProcessMouthsEvolveNew ThingsCastingDifferent PeoplesRehearsal Author:Lynn Nottage
“I used to be very shy. When I first started, I had to go to a casting, and I had to go in a bikini. I thought I was too skinny. But I went in and got the job! And that's how I started.” FirstsJobsUsedUsed To BeShyCastingSkinnyBikinis Author:Adriana Lima
“My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.” ArtSchoolArtistFineDadUniversityMy DadCastingFine ArtsDeanPlaygroundsBronze Author:Maya Lin
“My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.” GroupsPeriodsIntelligentLawyerCopPhasesWoundedCastingSequenceIcy Author:Laura Linney
“I can't even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars.” PeopleI CanStarsCastingCouches Author:Jenny McCarthy
“Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.” PeopleUsedActorsTalentTypeSkillsTheaterCastingMovie Actors Author:Sam Mendes
“There's a certain feeling of giving, a certain feeling of generosity in love songs. When you sing a song of love, you're actually giving something to yourself, too. You're singing and casting these affirmations of love out into the universe.” GivingFeelingsCertainSongUniverseLove YouSingingGenerosityAffirmationCasting Author:Jason Mraz