Jodie Foster Quotes

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

When you're casting a show, you have your idea of who you want it to be, and of course, those are going to be very well-known names.

Sometimes casting falls in place easily and sometimes it takes a while. Fifty per cent of my job is done when I get the right actors.

Casting is 65 percent of directing.

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

I didn't audition for 'Fargo.' It was a straight offer.

With movies, they have a certain person or style that they're looking for. It's not that they don't like you, but maybe you're not the person that's right for their movie. That happens a lot.

For most actors, it is the script that chooses them and not the other way around.

People are lazy when they cast. It's natural to think of the most obvious fit to your character.

I don't think I had a script on 'King Kong.' But usually you read a script and then you go and audition for it. It's rare when there's no script. I sort of like the latter better, because I'm more successful at it.

In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult.

I always used to say, as a director, that I could make anybody good in a movie if you found the right part. It all comes down to casting.

My very first audition was for 'Hot Girl #1' in some movie.

Casting, to me, is always the same. It's a very important part of a director's job. I pick people that I sense I'd like to be in a room with and will enjoy the rehearsal process with because that's the best part.

They were looking for actors - real actors - who could play instruments. There was a lot of improvisation and scene work involved in addition to the music. The auditions went on for a long time.

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 knew at the time that that wasn't the part I would be doing, they just wanted a screentest so they could have a look at it to show to the directors and producers. Then they wrote a part for me or maybe they already had it in mind, I don't know.

A lot of the time the film chooses me. I'll be working and I'll get a call from my agent and I'll get the script and then tell him what I think.

A film is a chain of very difficult decisions, and I think one of them is to choose an accurate cast.

Sitting down for the actor read when you first get together, it's like the Last Supper because you don't know who will be there for the next read.

Often, you're not quite sure what people have seen you in, but the script lands in your inbox. That was the case with 'The Night Manager.'

I've always believed that it's the film that chooses the actor and not the other way round.

I worked in feature film casting right out of college and spent a lot of time working with actors, directors, and producers.

I would love to act in films if people think I am right for a particular role.

Not that I'm in the stage of my career where they're offering me parts in 'The Revenant,' but I try very hard to go through the audition process because I feel like I learn quite a lot about the character and the people I'm going to work with.