Cary Fukunaga Quotes

You'll find that street casting in America is a lot different than street casting in different nations.

Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business.

The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

Some people work very closely with a director or a producer on something, and from the get go, they're collaborating. But typically, it's just go in for an audition, do the best you can, and if the phone rings a couple of days after the audition and you get the part, that's great.

I used Vamps as a casting couch! I pretty much did, because I was casting 'L!fe Happens' while I was on the set of Vamps, and anybody I had ever worked with, I asked to be in this movie.

You have to make enough noise to be cast in the right films, and the best way to make that noise is to do lots of good work.

I think I was first choice for the part. I don't know - that's what they always tell you anyway. I didn't have to do any audition for the part. Sam saw me in Dinner and the whole thing slipped into place.

I love making films, but the best roles are hard to come by.

With movies, they have a certain person or style that they're looking for. It's not that they don't like you, but maybe you're not the person that's right for their movie. That happens a lot.

Casting directors are like these fairy godmother witches.

Even when they have a star that they're going after, casting directors love, if anything, just the excuse to see people. They like to have a dugout full of actors that they can go to.

I've had a couple opportunities where I've been on the other side of the audition process as a director.

For film, I audition just like everyone else, because it's a different set of casting directors.

I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films.

I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.

I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.

I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, it's like a splinter in your mind and you can't get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called 'The Hunger Games.'

I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.

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

I think the process of 'SNL' is still pretty formal. You make an audition tape, your agent sends it in, they watch people's tapes, and then they invite people to perform at a comedy club in Los Angeles or New York. But I don't know how much actual scouting they do online.

I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.

I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.

With a famous name, you have to work that much harder to get the part.

I think any performing artist can do films, or, as a matter of fact, anybody out there in the street can be a film actor with no experience whatsoever if you've got a good director.

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