Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Foley

And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio'.

Cary Fukunaga

The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story, based on who's embodying it.

Benh Zeitlin

Local casting is just something I love doing.

Kaya Scodelario

'Skins' wanted to create a new thing by actually casting real teenagers. I think it was very brave of them. They also wanted to give the opportunity to people who didn't go to drama school.

Archie Panjabi

I loved eating and I did put on weight. I never actually felt fat until I started going for castings, for auditions.

Bill Hader

If a movie doesn't even have financing yet, they'll do a table read for it at a casting director's office with actors, for the producer and the writer, just to hear if the movie is working.

Finn Wittrock

A lot of the stuff that's happening now, I can trace back to 'Death of a Salesman.' Francine Maisler, the casting director, saw 'Death of a Salesman' and called me in for 'Unbroken.' The casting director of 'Normal Heart' had seen 'Salesman' too. I look back on it now, and it's like one thing led to another; it was a chain reaction.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I think Michael Crawford realised, I think we all realised, once we'd gone the route of casting a very young girl, you can't really cast a 65 year old man opposite. Slightly different resonance I think. No, we weren't going to go there. We'd have Jack Nicholson in the lead.

Dylan Penn

When you're shy, the worst thing you can do is go into all these casting rooms and be scrutinized. But with shyness, I think you just have to bite the bullet.

Ludivine Sagnier

Hollywood is a wonderful machine for making big movies. In France, we make smaller and more personal films, but if things keep changing, this will disappear. The industry in Italy is practically gone. Cinecitta now is used mostly by filmmakers from others places, like Martin Scorsese.

Terrell Falk

When filmmakers make a movie, they make a movie for the large screen.

Andy Wachowski

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.

Nina Jacobson

I know many filmmakers, and shooting in IMAX is challenging. Filmmakers love the vividness and power of those big images.

Jonathan Mostow

Making a movie is difficult enough to sort of have a premeditated length that you're going for. I don't know a single filmmaker on the planet who does that.

Louis Leterrier

I feel like the great filmmakers who have a true voice, yeah they take the notes, they understand the notes, but it's really about the notes underneath the notes. When you do a test screening and somebody says, 'Well, I didn't like the love story,' but it was probably just too long.

Adriana Barraza

In Mexico, there are good filmmakers, but they didn't always have the opportunity to show their work. But since 'Amores Perros,' many of these filmmakers had the opportunity to show their films, and they have a newfound energy for cinema.

Tobias Lindholm

I have three sons, and the oldest wants to play pirates all the time. It has all these associations of living some kind of very free life. It's interesting for me as a filmmaker to show a whole different side of that.

Anil Kapoor

I have lot of respect of filmmakers who work in Telugu and Tamil.

Serj Tankian

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Mario Pescante

We are preparing very well but it is not possible to be 100 percent secure.

Don Davis

We usually keep it between 40 to 50 percent relative humidity, and around 65 to 70 degrees.

Scott Smith

When you think about it, 'Siskel and Ebert' is reachable by 95 percent of televisions in U.S.,

Ken Hitchcock

We're not going to put him in unless he's 100 percent. If he's 100 percent after today, we'll probably let him go at it. But if he's not, then we will wait until Saturday.

Nicki Grossman

We have never, ever been 100 percent full. There are always rooms.

Heizo Takenaka

Whether we reach 1.7 percent this year does not really have much meaning.

Enrique Pena Nieto

There are many commitments I have made for reducing poverty. One is to reform social security. Social security reaches only 44 percent of Mexicans. One of my goals is to give social security to all the people.