Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.

Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.

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.

As an actor, you're in the hands of producers and directors. It's important to find out who you're working with.

Nina Gold is a fantastic casting director. She's doing the new 'Star Wars' movies, but she also does 'Game of Thrones' and many of the Working Title movies, and she did 'Rush.'

Usually, when you're an actress, you have to audition 20 times.

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.

A movie will live or die with your casting.

I work with actors who fit the bill. I have worked with Abhishek in 'Yuva,' 'Guru' and 'Raavan' because he was the perfect choice.

Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.

Foremost is the casting; you need convincing faces. Most of our films suffer from casting.

I don't think I had a script on 'King Kong.' But usually you read a script and then you go and audition for it. It's rare when there's no script. I sort of like the latter better, because I'm more successful at it.

In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult.

I love actors. That's my bread and butter, and I got to work with some amazing ones on '12 Years'.

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.

There are lots of people I'd like to work with. It would be fun to be in a movie with Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen.

My very first audition was for 'Hot Girl #1' in some movie.

I don't think I auditioned for 'Ghostbusters II'.

I totally heard by chance that they were doing the casting for a James Bond movie, and that one of the auditions was taking place in Paris. So I tried myself to contact every name involved in the movie I could possibly find on the IMDb!

When you explore a scene, the most important thing is who to cast.

I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.

Actors get bored.

Acting was my first love.

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

Acting is probably the number one team sport in America as far as I'm concerned.