Doug Liman Quotes

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

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

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

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.

Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good.

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.

Let's put it this way, when I was casting, I cast Viggo first and then found someone who could play his wife, rather than the other way around. So for me he's still the lead character.

A director should cast a person who fits into their script.

Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.

A film is a chain of very difficult decisions, and I think one of them is to choose an accurate cast.

If a film is being made by an intelligent director, they're going to cast the right guy.

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

I worked in casting for about five years before I became a director, and that taught me a huge amount because you never actually will see the character walk through the door - and if you do, then you have to be slightly suspicious of that.

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.

When it comes to casting for movies, it is a priority that you cast right. The guiding principle must be what is right for the movie, that is the basis you cast someone, not because so-and-so is a friend.

I like interesting casting, and casting people who you think might be slightly different in parts.

I only cast the actors and actresses I fall in love with - truly having an emotion for them, an anticipation and enthusiasm when seeing them - and I believe that my emotional confidence in them blends into chemistry. It's always been like that, and I hope I won't be wrong in the future.

It's not a secret, but if you know what the hell you're doing, you pick good actors. And you know what makes a good actor? A good personality in the performer, in the person.

I believe in the power that a casting director has.

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.

Deb Zane, our casting director on the Hunger Games was very sanguine, from the beginning, about just blocking out what everybody else says that they want.

As far as casting, I'm there for every single person that's cast. Even if it's one word, I'm there for their auditions.

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

Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.

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.