Matthew Weiner Quotes

I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly.

Casting is great fun, except for the business of it. I love the casting process. I love the editing process. I love working with the music. And even prep is very exciting. But once you get there and the clock is ticking, all it is is stress.

You get callbacks, and they either give it to what they call a 'name' performer, or they decide to go in an entirely different direction.

It's easier to get an actor when you just ask them to do a day on something rather than have them come in, audition, get picked.

Casting is everything. I put a huge amount of work into casting, and consistently across my career, I am most proud of my bold choices I made in casting.

I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer. I think the most important thing is that you have to really choose the players carefully.

Casting a film is to me one of the most important things next to the writing. If you cast it properly everything takes place very easily. If you cast it improperly you're fighting an uphill battle.

I was so lucky that I didn't have to audition. It's just such a grueling process, in itself.

I feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.

Ninety percent of your job is done if you find the right cast.

Sometimes it's all about the casting.

We chose the actors thru a series of auditions when we started the show.

If you cast the picture correctly, you have a whole lot of leeway. You can make mistakes in other aspects but pull it off with the right actors.

My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England.

He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.

Casting is very, very important.

One of the things I learned very early on is you need to cast the kids for the characters you want them to play. They need to be who they are, right? If you want a loud, boisterous kid character, you need to find that kid.

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

I believe in the power that a casting director has.

If you read a part that you want to play, and you already know you have actors you want to work with but it's not on the page, it's not going to be on the screen. So that is the most difficult thing to do for a producer, is to get a script that attracts this kind of talent.

My Dad always told me that casting agencies are like artists picturing their paintings in their mind. They know what they want for a role and not to take it too seriously [if I dont get the part].

I'm always involved with casting my movies. I have final word on it.

Sometimes casting falls in place easily and sometimes it takes a while. Fifty per cent of my job is done when I get the right actors.

Any script, even like The Founder, if it's something that I imagine myself playing this character or that character - any of the characters, basically - how do we flesh these characters out to be good enough to have amazing actors that come in that make it really difficult for them to say no? Even though I'm not right for any of those parts, that's just kind of how we go about it.

Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well.