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You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act.

If you don't cast well, you can be in real trouble.

When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.

Sometimes it's all about the casting.

When you cast, you can't cast only visually; you have to cast emotionally, too.

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.

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

I've said maybe too many times that I'd rather be typecast than not cast at all.

One writes what one can, or has to, write.

When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.