Philippe Falardeau Quotes

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 think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren't going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.

I always used to say, as a director, that I could make anybody good in a movie if you found the right part. It all comes down to casting.

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

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

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.

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

There are so many people who come to me to be an actor, but I select only those people who I feel can fit my script. If they do, I immediately say yes. I don't do screen tests. I talk to them and see how their mind functions. I read their mind and cast them.

I've had a couple opportunities where I've been on the other side of the audition process as a director, so it's really reassuring to me that it's just about who is right for that role and less about if you ace the audition. It's just about getting to know people, not about who's a better actor a lot of the time.

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.

I didn't audition or anything like that. But I went into John Loganhis office... It was his screening room in his office, actually, and I sat and schmoozed with him for about two minutes, which I think is standard, and, y'know, we got on fine.

I also think the more experienced you get as an actor, you start to hear the conversations about why people get cast and not cast, sometimes it's so arbitrary. They decided the moment you walked in the door. And there's nothing you could have done to sway them, even if you'd the greatest performance of all time.

I usually try not to think about actors while writing, because the odds of those stars aligning and you getting those specific people are so rare.

For me, casting is critical. It's nice that social media and the passionate fans really corroborated choices and embraced kids to be characters.

There are so many things that go into casting that you just never know.

I started taping my dad's auditions when I was 11, when he was auditioning actors for one of his movies. I would see, over and over again, that there wasn't just one actor for the role. It was really clear that there were a lot of people who could play a character really well, and it would always come down to something kind of weird and non-obvious as to why a person was cast. If you're not right, you're not right, but that's okay.

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.

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?

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

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

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

If they're going to cast one person and not another, it's not rejection of your talent, it's just that they want one person and not someone else. As an actor, unfortunately, it's not your job to cast the movie.

I know that people get cast based on how they look in Hollywood.

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