Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.
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 be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it.
Lawrence Kasdan

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

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

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

But, I think that the reason I responded to this book, sort of paradoxically, is that it starts out like The Big Chill, sort of. Four friends, who are not quite happy with their life, and every year they get together for a week and look for some comfort from each other.
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 viewer.
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 Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes.
Lawrence Kasdan

I loved Alien, and I loved Carrie, and I loved The Exorcist - those were big movies for me. They were just brilliantly done, and unusual, and they all took horror to some new place.
Lawrence Kasdan

I mean, I really liked those guys and the experience of doing Raiders was really good for me, but I did not really want to be involved - I only did Jedi, as I really owed George a favor.
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 shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.
Lawrence Kasdan

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

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

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 - it just makes the whole struggle more.
Lawrence Kasdan

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 tell a certain kind of story, and I was a huge fan of Film Noir, and what I liked about it was that it was so extreme in style.
Lawrence Kasdan

The great thing about Stephen is that he sees the movie as a separate thing, I think. He wants it to capture the essence of the book, and if he feels that's been done, then he's not too particular about the details. I think that's why he's happy.
Lawrence Kasdan

The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.
Lawrence Kasdan

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 day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that.
Lawrence Kasdan

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