Benh Zeitlin famous quotes

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Local casting is just something I love doing.
-- Benh Zeitlin

#Casting
Someone once told me that movies are a universal passport. And its true, wherever you go.
-- Benh Zeitlin

#Passports
That's the thing about a folk tale: It is always addressing incredibly key issues about how you should live and what the right thing to do is, which is really what I'm the most interested in - like the questions that religion takes on. And I think that, for those of us that aren't religious, we need, or I need, art that stimulates the same kind of thinking about what it is to be a mensch, or a good man, things like that.
-- Benh Zeitlin

#Religious #Art #Men
I always have a backlog of like seven movies that I want to make.
-- Benh Zeitlin

#Want #Seven
I don't watch trailers, I like to go into every movie fresh.
-- Benh Zeitlin

#Watches #Trailers
I've always loved movies, since I was a little kid, but I never wanted to be part of that industry. It always seemed horrifying, the way films were made.
-- Benh Zeitlin

#Kids #Littles #Way

Our leaders will serve the common good with better laws and better actions only when we serve it first, by casting better votes.
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.
Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.
Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
Local casting is just something I love doing.
I used to put that I studied with Stella Adler on my resume. I never met Stella Adler. But if you told a casting director you studied with Stella Adler all the sudden they'd let you in the door.
Trend analyses for extreme tropical cyclones are unreliable because of operational changes that have artificially resulted in more intense tropical cyclones being recorded, casting severe doubts on any such trend linkages to global warming.
Casting is very, very important.
And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio'.

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