Marianne Elliott Quotes

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.

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.

The least consideration of any film I've ever worked on is who is right for it.

You read a script, you try and think through what is the best, most wide-ranging way of telling the story: who stylistically, character-logically, psychologically fits inside the world of what you're trying to do. A lot of it, when you're casting, is trying to get yourself in the head of a director.

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

If a film is being made by an intelligent director, they're going to cast the right guy.

As a director, one of my biggest jobs is trying to see what actually works for the actor.

I don't normally think of a specific actor. I concentrate on the character, and then when we get into pre-production, that's how names come up.

The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

I love to be a working actor, and I love to read scripts as they come in. If I find the script or character that is interesting, I want to transform myself into that character.

I think acting really helps as a director. It's just no question, because you totally understand the acting process.

As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.

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.'

If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.

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.

When you shoot a film, you have very little time to waste, and I try to go into the character as soon as possible and stay there as much as I can.

On a very small scale, I kind of understand why the directors that I work with do certain things. I don't consider myself an incredible director. I'm not ready to do movies by any means. But, I feel like I can be a better actress now that I've been on the other side and kind of understand the process and more of the technical aspects of it.

It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast.

Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'

I would like to see more of the making of just regular television shows. Like the casting process. I think it's so fascinating to watch the actors come in and see how they discuss everybody afterwards. It's a crazy world that has no rhyme or reason.

You just start going through that process of trying to put together a cast that works. I don't know that I can explain it in a way that you can go, 'Oh.' It's a little bit like saying, 'How would he be with him? How does that feel?'

The more I'm here in L.A. talking to people, the more I believe that what I've been doing is right, and that's the belief that you have to judge a role from the character, by the script.

People think a director teaches acting. But in good films a director doesn't.

In 'Bunny,' I have got my dialogues - almost 80 per cent of my shots were okayed in a single take. I did put in effort and did a lot of homework.