Karthik Subbaraj Quotes

When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.

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.

I loved the fact that Mitch Coleborn wasn't on my radar for 'Stranger than Fiction' until he sent 10 waves of himself to us. Then he went from unknown to having a great section in the movie.

Radha Krishna Sir, the director of 'Jil,' had seen 'Madras Cafe' and liked my acting in it. He wanted a performer and so got me on board.

A movie will live or die with your casting.

There's plenty of examples of films where they're greenlit to move forward, and they want to get X actor. And they don't get X actor, so they go with Y, and it doesn't turn out to be as good of a movie as it should have been.

When you cast, you can't cast only visually; you have to cast emotionally, too.

Matching character and actor is what a good director does.

I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs 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.

I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.

Why do I use the same actors in different movies? One of the things I really stress in casting is I need to find someone who is suitable for the role in the movie. That's always the main reason.

I have grown up watching Bollywood movies, and I would love to act in them.

You can write and write, but if you don't have someone who can nail that character, it's never going to live.

Because actors don't get to pick movies; movies pick the actors.

I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.

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

I think Michael Crawford realised, I think we all realised, once we'd gone the route of casting a very young girl, you can't really cast a 65 year old man opposite. Slightly different resonance I think. No, we weren't going to go there. We'd have Jack Nicholson in the lead.

I don't think I'm on the studio president's list: 'The movie's going to star Cannavale.' That's not happening.

I had heard that Robert Duvall was interested in doing 'Lonesome Dove,' and he's one of those actors with whom I'd work on any project. So I tracked down the script and started to bug the producer, Dyson Lovell, to get in there.

There was a moment when we were casting 'Groundhog Day' when Bill Murray was not at the top of my list. He'd been getting crankier and crankier. By the end of 'Ghostbusters II', he was pretty cranky. I thought, 'Do I want to put up with this for twelve weeks?'

Any time you cast an actor, you don't just cast that actor; you cast all their other performances as well.

Jesse Eisenberg, this little nebbishy guy, as Lex Luthor? For me, that's a genius move.

It's an interesting thing when you're casting a film - especially when you're trying to discover someone - you're waiting for someone to step into the room in an audition process and claim the role.

Bollywood takes up a lot of time.