Jennifer Konner Quotes

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.

I would love to have twins. I think there's something nice about having two babies, and they're there for each other their whole entire life.

I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive.

When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.

We need children to play the parts in movies. I'm just glad it's not my kids.

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.

I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going to be a safe place to work, but I really don't think about it.

My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England.

He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.

My experience with casting children is that... the whole movie is going to rest on their shoulders, so you have to set aside time and wait for the perfect people to appear.

I'll tell you, being on set on 'Harry Potter' was nerve-wracking. It was surreal to be in a room with those three kids, all of whom know exactly what they're doing.

There's this absurd situation on a movie set where your trailer's here and the set is here and the lunch tent is here, and you're not allowed to get yourself from these three places.

I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.

I was there for the making of Young Winston, but guns kept going off. I went 'Waaaaah,' and someone said, 'Please get the child off the set.'

One of the things I learned very early on is you need to cast the kids for the characters you want them to play. They need to be who they are, right? If you want a loud, boisterous kid character, you need to find that kid.

It's really weird casting babies; it's kind of the dark underbelly of Hollywood, to meet babies and judge them.

When 'The Master' came around, they said they wanted to try and find a part for me, and I got a text from the casting director saying that.

Every time a film comes together, usually the studio executives come up for a day to the set. If you're out of town, they'll fly in or wherever you are - the cast, the director, the producers - all get together and have a big dinner and celebrate the fact that we're about to start shooting.

Technically, you can learn everything on the set as an assistant director, and rather quickly.

I couldn't believe how big Ben Affleck's trailer was. It was like a spaceship - I remember thinking, I'd live in that.

My sister Tala has twins, and they're wonderful.

Social distancing on a film set is an oxymoron. It can't happen, it won't happen. We can keep lying to ourselves though.

One day, I read in the newspaper they were looking for an unknown for the film of 'A Taste of Honey.' They auditioned over 2,000 girls for the part of Jo - not as many as they did for 'Annie,' at any rate.

To cast Ida, it took ages, and I was a bit desperate. I couldn't find somebody I could believe in. I spent months looking for the lead among young actresses and drama students.

When I was a young kid, my pops introduced me to it. He took me to Harlem, 145th and Edgecombe, to watch the filming of Claudine with James Earl Jones and Diahann Carroll. That was my first taste of seeing a set and the cameras, and I was bit by the acting bug at a young age.