Lawrence Kasdan Quotes

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• It's hard enough to get any movie made, and when you take on these tough genres - and I've done it a couple times -…
• And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure.…
• The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to…
• It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.
• Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.
• I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation.…
• If your work is going to draw from life, you'd better work very hard to keep up with reality.
• I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see…
• I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.
• I loved Alien, and I loved Carrie, and I loved The Exorcist - those were big movies for me. They were just brilliantly done, and…
• That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for a vessel to…
• With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind…
• Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.
• Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.
• But, George and Steven asked me to write the Indiana Jones sequels, and I didn't want to.
• I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer.
• I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palma's best movies.
• The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every…
• What you hope for, like Unforgiven did a lot to give you a chance to do it again sometime.
• I tell you, I feel like a real novice as far as horror goes.

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