Casts Quotes

(on Alfred Hitchcock) You can see from the way he uses actors that he sees them as animated props. He casts his films very, very carefully and he knows perfectly well in advance that all the actors that he chooses are perfectly capable of playing the parts he gives them, without any special directorial effort on his part. He gets some sort of a charge out of directing the leading ladies, I think, but that`s something else.

(talking about her son Kai Dugan): We`ve already done plays together. Very short plays. He dictates them to me. Sometimes he casts me, sometimes he doesn`t. And when I`m in the play, he`ll sometimes say to me, "No Mom, you didn`t say that right!"

When asked what character from literature he would like to play: "Well, if we can expand the definition of literature to include comic books, I`d definitely love a crack at "General Zod" from "Superman". So I`m hoping that Bryan Singer makes a sequel to the "Superman" that`s coming out and casts me" (TV Guide, April 10-16,2006).

You always see those movies that have amazing casts, and it`s funny to be in one of them. It`s a list of all these fantastic people--and, oh, me as well.

The thing with Ridley (Scott) is he`s been doing this forever, he knows what it is he wants and how to get it. There`s absolutely no messing around on set. Having said that, he`s very accessible to actors, very open to what you want to do and willing to talk about it. He casts people who he feels are going to bring something to the role and allows them to take care of the situation, to do what it is that they do.

(on Alfred Hitchcock) You can see from the way he uses actors that he sees them as animated props. He casts his films very, very carefully and he knows perfectly well in advance that all the actors that he chooses are perfectly capable of playing the parts he gives them, without any special directorial effort on his part. He gets some sort of a charge out of directing the leading ladies, I think, but that`s something else.

They were very prepared and they learned their lines sooner than some of the other casts I`ve directed.

I`m a level 5 vegan, I don`t eat anything that casts a shadow.

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

A lot of times black actors get stuck in a box. They`re up against a lot of limitations for the kind of films that they get approached about. It`s easy to get stuck in a box and just be approached about nothing but urban films. Or, if you start out as a comedian, it`s easy for you to be approached about nothing but comedies, and comedies with all black casts.

"I am present in front of anyone who has faith in me , just as the moon casts its reflection,effortlessly, in any vessel filled with water" Guru Padmasambhava