Anytime you're on camera, 95 percent of whatever character you're playing, unless you're Daniel Day-Lewis - or maybe, no, pretty much just him - you're cast because you're you.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.
I'll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it's really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.
I've never been someone who is cast for having a lovely figure but for whatever qualities I could possibly bring to a role, so I'm still castable.
Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.
I'll write a character with a certain actor in mind, but then once I start casting, I have to forget about who I pictured.
When it comes to casting, I've been so lucky. I've worked with unbelievable actors who make me look better than I am and take the written word and make it honest.
When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.
As actors, we are always playing other characters. It's so exhausting and time consuming to figure them out, so when you get the time to be yourself, you should take it.
Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.
You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act.