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.
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There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination.
You know how when you read a book and it becomes a movie, and it's different than you pictured? In some ways, acting is a lot like that.
I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.
Casting is storytelling.
You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.
Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.
Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.
The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.
Since I've worked in film and television for so long, I've acquired the ability to let the version of the characters that lives in my mind make way for the living, breathing humans who are going to play them on screen. If you cast it right - and casting is about 80% of directing - they will eventually replace or exceed the imaginary image.
People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are.
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