Lawrence Kasdan

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.

— Lawrence Kasdan

The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that…

— Lawrence Kasdan

I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can…

— Lawrence Kasdan

I loved Alien, and I loved Carrie, and I loved The Exorcist - those were big movies for me. They were just…

— Lawrence Kasdan

Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.

— Lawrence Kasdan

It's hard enough to get any movie made, and when you take on these tough genres - and I've done it a…

— Lawrence Kasdan

I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.

— Lawrence Kasdan

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.

— Lawrence Kasdan

That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for…

— Lawrence Kasdan

You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes…

— Lawrence Kasdan

I mean, I really liked those guys and the experience of doing Raiders was really good for me, but I did not…

— Lawrence Kasdan

I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palma's best movies.

— Lawrence Kasdan

I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a…

— Lawrence Kasdan

The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have…

— Lawrence Kasdan

What you hope for, like Unforgiven did a lot to give you a chance to do it again sometime.

— Lawrence Kasdan

I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom…

— Lawrence Kasdan

The great thing about Stephen is that he sees the movie as a separate thing, I think. He wants it to capture…

— Lawrence Kasdan

If your work is going to draw from life, you'd better work very hard to keep up with reality.

— Lawrence Kasdan

I tell you, I feel like a real novice as far as horror goes.

— Lawrence Kasdan

And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to…

— Lawrence Kasdan

But, George and Steven asked me to write the Indiana Jones sequels, and I didn't want to.

— Lawrence Kasdan

It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

— Lawrence Kasdan

But, I think that the reason I responded to this book, sort of paradoxically, is that it starts out like The Big…

— Lawrence Kasdan

With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can…

— Lawrence Kasdan