Allison Jones Quotes

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

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

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.

I usually set aside a lot of time in advance of a movie with important roles for kids to search, but when you have great ones, they can be a real ace in the hole.

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.

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

A casting director who'd cast me in 'Assassins' sent a video to Kevin Reynolds, the director, and Mel Gibson, whose company is producing '187.' Then I went in and auditioned, and a few hours later, they called me.

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

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.'

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.

I knew at the time that that wasn't the part I would be doing, they just wanted a screentest so they could have a look at it to show to the directors and producers. Then they wrote a part for me or maybe they already had it in mind, I don't know.

I worked in feature film casting right out of college and spent a lot of time working with actors, directors, and producers.

Finalising an actress is the job of the producer and director. It usually happens only after they are ready with a story.

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 was shooting for 'Maaya' when I got a call from John Abraham's office. They told me about the film and asked if I could audition. But since I was shooting, I recorded my audition and sent them the tapes. The next thing I know, I was on board.

I believe in the power that a casting director has.

What a casting director does is they're a connector.

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

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.

Everything in The Room, we did it the same way the big studios do it. The only difference is the budget and the actors. We put an ad in Back Stage West and in return we got almost 8,000 headshots from people who wanted to be in the film. We then do a process of selection and a rehearsal process after they are selected. The process of audition is very time consuming.

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

In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for 'Pretty Woman.'

Casting is 65 percent of directing.

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