00:00She certainly is a remarkable woman, an absolute genius.
00:06Her opinions went spot on.
00:07Marion Daugherty was pioneered a new path in this area.
00:10Deeply committed, risk-taking.
00:12She is a cornerstone in the film industry.
00:14She was considered sort of the dean of casting directors.
00:17Kind of a special character in her own way.
00:20She owned that position of casting she was in.
00:23Hollywood had no idea what casting was all about.
00:27Marion Daugherty raised the stock of casting directors in the film business.
00:31She had a very clear idea about things.
00:34She could see where people couldn't see.
00:35I began to notice Marion Daugherty.
00:38She introduced so many of your actors to film.
00:41All of these great talents.
00:43Everything was shifting in American culture.
00:46People wanted something different.
00:51Robert Duvall was not handsome, but he was attractive.
00:55Dusty and I had a place.
00:56He had the bottom floor.
00:57I had the top floor.
00:58I told Marion about him.
01:00I said, this guy's got talent.
01:01He's going to be something.
01:02I warned you about that.
01:04It's staggering to look down that resume and just go film after film after film
01:09that are seminal pieces of American culture.
01:13I will always be indebted to her for a chance to break into another kind of role.
01:18You're humbled by someone who sees something in you before you even see it in yourself.
01:22Marion Daugherty is the reason why I was cast in my first movie.
01:26The fact that I did not get a casting credit is probably the worst thing that's happened
01:32to me in my career.
01:35Casting has been severely neglected over the years and tends to be shuffled aside.
01:41The director's guild said, you cannot be called casting director because you're not a director.
01:47The reality is you're not a director.
01:49You're a casting person.
01:51You're casting by.
01:54You cannot separate the work of somebody like Marion Daugherty from what the final outcome
01:59of the film is.
02:00It's just impossible.
02:01It's impossible.
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