I cast very much from the gut, and I think I was very lucky to be able to get... many amazing international... people that I had always really wanted to work with.
Rupert SandersI feel very strongly about the legacy of Ghost and I'm the next part of that chapter and hopefully a very long and continuing story through the franchise of Ghost in the Shell which is already a huge universe. So yes, I felt pressure, but you always feel pressure as an artist creatively in any endeavour you do, so you just have to do the best that you can do and then hope that is successful.
Rupert SandersTo me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.
Rupert SandersTo trust so much in our devices and sync everyone's device up - we tell people where we are, what we buy and where we shop, who we talk to - and that goes somewhere. The ghost of information technology out there, and one of the points... of the manga and anime was trusting in technology.
Rupert Sanders