Lawrence Kasdan Quotes

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

Lawrence Kasdan

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

Lawrence Kasdan

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

Lawrence Kasdan

#4. When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.

Joe Dante

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

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#6. 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

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

Lawrence Kasdan

#8. 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.

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#9. 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.

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#10. 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

#11. You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man.

Lawrence Kasdan

#12. When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.

Alain Prost

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

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

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#15. My glass of wine and I are besties.

Mila Kunis

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

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#17. It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing.

Simon Critchley

#18. 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.

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

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#20. 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.

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

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#22. It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

Lawrence Kasdan

#23. People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.

Chad Harbach

#24. The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it, into which a young gentleman should be enter'd by degrees, as he can bear it; and the earlier the better, so he be in safe and skillful hands to guide him.

John Locke

#25. You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there.

Lawrence Kasdan

#26. Pop life Everybody needs a thrill Pop life We all got a space 2 fill Pop life Everybody can't be on top But life it ain't real funky Unless it's got that pop Dig it.

Prince

#27. 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

#28. Oh, the luxury of lying in the fern night and the grass night and the night of the susurrant, slumbrous voices weaving the night together.

Ray Bradbury

#29. 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.

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#30. 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.

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#31. Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

Roger Mudd

#32. Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

Carl Jung

#33. 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 story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western.

Lawrence Kasdan

#34. 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

#35. Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.

Mary Quant

#36. Freedom-loving people around the world must say ... I am a refugee in a crowded boat foundering off the coast of Vietnam. I am Laotian, a Cambodian, a Cuban, and a Miskito Indian in Nicaragua. I, too, am a potential victim of totalitarianism.

Ronald Reagan

#37. 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