Jay Roach Quotes

All the actors I've worked with as a director over the years I really love and I thought they were all right for the part.

I had the good fortune early on to cast some really great people that were not just characters, they had character.

It's important to keep auditioning. If you're auditioning for something, you're auditioning for a role that people can't see you in and you need to convince them that you're the right person.

I have a particular love of an actor that I did work with, oddly, in 'Donnie Brasco,' who has since become a wonderful talent: Paul Giamatti. I would love to do a whole movie with Paul Giamatti.

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

Ever since the first 'American Pie,' I've always been happy to just have an opportunity, I just didn't think it was going to be with comedies. Now I really like it.

If you don't cast well, you can be in real trouble.

'21 Jump Street' is great. I just made that, and produced it and was a writer on it. It's starring myself and Channing Tatum, and maybe some surprise guests.

Everything that Michael Fassbender touches is elevated.

Many people have done really well pulling their characters out; I think 'Wayne's World' really hit the mark.

I'm just trying to be Emory Cohen.

I am really excited to act with a powerhouse of talent like Vijay Deverakonda.

When it's a good director, you can feel when they trust you when they cast you.

I don't think there's an actor in the world who ever expects to get a call from the 'Star Wars' casting director - least of all me.

I want to work with Sriram Raghavan, Imtiaz Ali, Karan Johar, and, of course, any other director who is offering a great role to play in a film.

When we had Brian Cox in 'Super Troopers,' we learned that when you put a great actor in the center of our lunacy, it grounds everything.

If you get the right cast, half your work is done.

I think Tim Matheson is amazing and I think he's amazing in this - I haven't seen the film [Killing Reagan] since we shot it, but I think he's just incredible.

I'm always excited to work with actors.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Mini-Me was the pint sized clone that was the perpetuation of Dr. Evil's own legacy [in Austin Powers]. That concept earned the sequel.

We just, you know, we're just sort of doing it like Bewitched, because we just think that the character of Kenny is so specific and so outrageous and so fun. And by far the hardest character to cast out of everybody to find someone who was capable of, you know, doing, you know, the comedy and just with the broadness and to be also just a really brilliant actor, you know, to do naturalism.

An actor's career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.

I'm an actor for hire, and I go do a job.

I've never, ever, in my entire life, been upset at a casting choice.