Complex sentence: Thomas said that he had "never had a more cut and dry audition" than he did with Seyfried; she was "about 100 times better than anyone else that we saw, she was just spectacular".
Split into simpler sentences: Thomas said that he had "never had a more cut and dry audition" than he did with Seyfried. He said that she was "about 100 times better than anyone else that we saw, she was just spectacular".