Johnathon Schaech Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

I've always believed that it's the film that chooses the actor and not the other way round.

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.

As roles go, very rarely do you get a role written for you or a director who wants you and only you for the part.

A lot of amazing films are happening, a lot amazing TV shows are happening, and people are not afraid to pick actors instead of stars.

I believe in the power that a casting director has.

Pilot season is always crazy because you audition for a million things, and really, in the end, it's not up to you.

Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well.

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

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.

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

I will see 100 or 200 and I will take my time with them and I audition them for the two main roles. If I like what I see, but they're not exactly right for the role, I'll think well I have this other role that might work for them. Sometimes I will write a role for them because I want to work with them because they're so good.

Roles should choose an actor and not vice versa.

Casting is a big deal.

I usually prefer casting actors from our own industry.

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

You have actors you've worked with previously, and you have actors you haven't worked with that you've seen in things where you know they can work in these parts. And then there are actors who blow you away, who surprise you.

Casting is an art, and if you're interested in people, like I am, casting is essential.

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.