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A director should cast a person who fits into their script.

— Christina Ricci

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Actors look for characters. If they read a well-written character, and if they think the director's not an idiot, they're going to sign up and do some acting.

— Andrew Dominik

I think one of the biggest jobs of being a director is getting the casting right.

— Duncan Jones

It's madness to hand in a script to a director, leave them alone, and for the director not to want the writer there with rehearsals and the shoot.

— Peter Morgan

I have an idealistic approach to acting. I want to be great at it, but you can't be great if the scripts are not there and the director doesn't know what he's doing.

— Tom Sizemore

As a director, you see something in someone; you know it's there, you just got to go get it. You do that with any actor. That's your job.

— Jeff Nichols

Matching character and actor is what a good director does.

— Bruno Dumont

Every director should take an acting class.

— Paul Feig

When I do a movie, I have the script. I know how it begins and how it ends. I know what my character does and where he's going. If I have ideas I want to express or changes I want to make, there's one guy: the director. It's different in television.

— Holt McCallany

✗Opposing Perspectives

It's not about the script: it's about who the director is and who the other people in the cast are. Because you can look at a great script and execute it in a very sophomoric way, and you can look at an OK script, and you can execute it in a very sophisticated way and come out with something really good.

— Jason Bateman

If the script is good, the cast and director good, I'll go anywhere.

— Ken Watanabe