Denis Villeneuve Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Musical chairs or Russian roulette? Sometimes there's as much tense drama in the casting of a Hollywood movie as there is in the finished product.

People don't always understand the way it works with casting. TV projects tend to be commissioned to screen at a particular time of year, so your shooting dates are chosen to meet that. And then the casting is a matter of choosing from the actors who are available for those dates.

I believe in the power that a casting director has.

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

I started taping my dad's auditions when I was 11, when he was auditioning actors for one of his movies. I would see, over and over again, that there wasn't just one actor for the role. It was really clear that there were a lot of people who could play a character really well, and it would always come down to something kind of weird and non-obvious as to why a person was cast. If you're not right, you're not right, but that's okay.

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

It's such an awkward, strange thing that was concocted, to have auditions. Back in the old days, you'd just have a screen test, and they'd say, 'Oh, you seem natural in front of the camera,' and you'd just go do 10 pictures for Paramount or whatever.

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.

Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business.

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 met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.

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 used Vamps as a casting couch! I pretty much did, because I was casting 'L!fe Happens' while I was on the set of Vamps, and anybody I had ever worked with, I asked to be in this movie.

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

Whenever any actor comes into a producer session, they have so many questions, and we still can't really tell them that much until they get the job.

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.'

Funnily enough, when I originally went in for my screen test, that set was already built.

I'm not in a rush to do anything. And I wouldn't say I pick and choose. When it comes to producers picking people for roles I don't think it's between me and Tom Cruise, do you know what I mean?

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

When you go in to do a screen test, you negotiate your contract and sign all your paperwork before you even get on a plane.