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Well, you've got to cast your movie. You have to have auditions with actors. You could put
ads out in the local paper. When I lived out in New York, I put an add in "Backstage,"
which was the actors' newspaper. And I would get so many resumes and photos from actors,
it would take me weeks just to open up the envelopes. And, right away, you kind of know
what you're looking for, and just based on appearance, kind of as shallow as it is. But
you're looking for people who fit the part. So, you're going through it all day, "They
won't work. They won't work. They won't work." So, you go through all the headshots, all
the resumes, and then you set up-determine who you're going to call, and they'll just
show up at the audition. And the auditions usually take, I would put aside two days to
do this. And you could rent out like rooms or like a room in a hall or something. Sometimes
libraries, you could rent out one of the rooms or something for a couple of hours. But don't
do it in your house. Do it like in a separate building, where people could come in, and
there's a room, and you could videotape them, maybe, reading a line from a script, and do
that. And I wouldn't schedule people specifically for certain times. I would just tell the actors
that, "Hey, the audition is on this day between this time and this time. Show up anywhere
between there," because you're only going to spend a couple minutes per person. So,
if they're waiting, it's not a problem. Actors are used to waiting. So, don't worry about
that. But you get a lot of people on tape. And the first time you have the audition,
the first day, don't necessarily have them read anything from your script. Have them
come prepared with something of their own. And they'll have like a monologue or something
they learned in acting school, or something from a play that they were in. And you can
get a sense from that just if they can act. Ant then, sometimes when they come in, and
they start doing a scene or reading something, it clicks in here, "Oh, they're right for
the part." And you know right away that this person is right. So, you'll see while you're
casting who fits, who doesn't. And, generally, all the people you picked on the first day,
you have them come back, and you kind of narrow it down. And then you call them, tell them
they got the part and everything. But then you're going to have to work with their schedule,
and from their availability, figure out what your shooting schedule's going to be.