I didn't watch any films. This film, The Proposal, had it all in the script. Once all the pieces, once I met Anne Fletcher and I knew what she wanted and that we wanted the same things, and once they said Ryan Reynolds was on board and once the casting came together, you saw what it wanted to be.
Casting is very instinctual. I really like to meet people. To me, it's about their essence more than their audition.
People will go into an audition and a casting situation, and they'll see someone across the room that's perhaps slightly famous, or famous, and they think, 'Oh God, I'm not gonna get the part.
The show is in the casting. Choose the right people.
I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly.
You know, I have never had a casting couch proposition in my life. I thought there was something wrong with me.
My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.
I believe really deeply in the pilot process because you learn things about tone and casting.
Casting is so important in horror. It's so important to have strong actors to tell a story because, if you don't believe in the character, how can you be scared for them?
I don't get involved in casting, budgets, location or promotion. Just the script. And, of course, the promotional tour. Which is fine with me - I'm a novelist.
It's really cool going into a casting room and having them know who you are and the work that you've done.
The casting is very simple actually, but it is very important. You choose the best actor for the role, and you test them and you test them, and you bring them back, and you have to make sure the actors fit the roles.
Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.
There's a time for casting silver; a time for casting cannon. If that isn't in the red, it should be!
I've worked with acting coaches, I've been going out on auditions and meeting with casting directors. But I'm not known as an actress.
I was pretty confident that I'd be playing something, if James Gunn could convince Marvel Studios and Disney to cast me. He's involved with the casting too, but if he could convince them to go along with him and agree with getting me on the roster, then yeah, I would have voiced Groot. Not a problem. Groot is an awesome character.
Local casting is just something I love doing.
Casting is always subject to availabilities.
I was particularly stunned by the casting of [Tom] Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler.
I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.