Is there a golden rule of being a casting director?

Is there a golden rule of being a casting director?

Paul De Freitas (Casting Director) gives expert video advice on: Have you discovered someone who is now a big star?; How do you cope with a difficult actor?; What happens if the director hates the people who you've cast? and more...

The golden rule for being a casting director is to meet as many people as you can in all kinds of walks of life. Not even in just the acting profession, which I know will sound like a strange thing for me to say. As the years have run by, certainly for the last 22 years since I've had my own company, you find yourself looking at doctors, nurses, and policemen, and seeing how they look and how they behave because that's how you will have to cast possibly one of these characters. It helps you understand different characters and different types, and that's a very interesting part of the job.