Sebastian Lelio Quotes

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

The least consideration of any film I've ever worked on is who is right for it.

I had great luck with Tim McGraw twice in 'Friday Night Lights' and 'The Kingdom.' I love finding off-beat casting and finding someone you know in one way and you reinvent them in another way. I like doing that as a director.

I loved doing casting because I love actors, and I am very conscious of what actors do. But I always wanted to be a producer.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

The thing about many celebrities - not all - is that they're fantastic actors. If we've created a really juicy role, it just feels like a fantastic actor should be playing the part. If it's a long enough part, we consider anyone. If it's a single episode, we don't usually let a single actor on. Because that' s just stunting.

Since I've worked in film and television for so long, I've acquired the ability to let the version of the characters that lives in my mind make way for the living, breathing humans who are going to play them on screen. If you cast it right - and casting is about 80% of directing - they will eventually replace or exceed the imaginary image.

I love actors, and I love the casting process. It's funny, like, some writers don't like actors because, I think, they are the faces of the show, and so you feel sort of secondary, but I love actors because they elevate the material; they make it better.

Casting is really exciting. With 'Twilight,' I wasn't involved at all with the casting in the original. They kept me in the loop, which was great. They'd be like, 'Hey Kristen Stewart's gonna do it' and I was like, 'Really? Awesome.'

Since I was 12 or 13, I have been taking movie meetings finding a project right for me because I wanted to try it. Craig gave us the script - it was set in Wales, it is really British humour. I just loved it.

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.

Because actors don't get to pick movies; movies pick the actors.

For me, an actor is a person who makes characters like a cobbler makes shoes.

When you're casting a show, you have your idea of who you want it to be, and of course, those are going to be very well-known names.

I learn a new thing every single day about acting, about directing, about producing.

I think one of the biggest jobs of being a director is getting the casting right.

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.

If any fantastic filmmakers want to offer me roles, I'll consider it!

I am open to doing cinema as long as I find the script right.

I play the leading lady in Arjun Rampal's latest production, 'Daddy'. It's a very bold, performance-oriented role, and the team had originally cast someone else. However, when Arjun saw my performance in 'Kaaka Muttai,' he roped me in.

I love to choose the right actors. It's kind of a pleasure to work with them and watch them imbue your concepts that you write.

I can't take 'The Room' and show it to an agent and say, 'Hey man, cast me in something.' It's an alien film.

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.

I think it's worse for actors, though, because people have to choose you. As a director, I get to choose the actors, but most of the time, actors have to be chosen in order to work.

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