David Michod Professions : Film director Born : November 30, 1972 Browse All Authors Top 7 quotes by David Michod To see great actors bring it all to life us exhilerating David Michod great-actors actors I love the casting process. It's a cliché but I think it's the most important part of the process. I really enjoy it too. I love putting that jigsaw puzzle of people together. David Michod jigsaw-puzzles people thinking I find music the the clearest and easiest way in to what a movie will feel like - more so than visual references or other movies or dense dossiers of research material. Every now and then I'll send a piece of music or two to people I'm working with - actors or heads of department - when I think it'll help them get a sense of the kind of movie I'm proposing. Often those pieces will end up in the movie - sometimes they won't. David Michod two people thinking The first time when you can really get a sense of what the movie is going to look and feel like is when you're in a casting room and seeing it. David Michod casting rooms firsts You can have levity in the film because real people look for levity in their lives. David Michod real people looks I don't want to redo what I've [just done]. I don't want to retread old ground. David Michod redos done want I'd like to make all different kinds of movies. I don't think it would make sense though for my second film to walk straight into a musical even though I'd like to. David Michod musical different thinking Similar Authors Alex Graves film-director Brad Furman film-director Bryan Singer film-director Bruno Dumont film-director Bruce McDonald film-director Bruce Brown film-director All Authors