Quotes by Lawrence Kasdan - Page 1

It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.
Lawrence Kasdan / Film Producer
Deities
Programming
Statistics
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You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man.
Lawrence Kasdan / Film Producer
Smart
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I tell you, I feel like a real novice as far as horror goes.
Lawrence Kasdan / Film Producer
Novice
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Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.
Lawrence Kasdan / Film Producer
Stories
Western
Wilder
Billy
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I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palma's best movies.
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Brian
Carrie
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Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.
Lawrence Kasdan / Film Producer
Every Night
Homework
Night
Rest Of Your Life
Writing
Like
Life Your Night
Writer
Being
Every
Rest
Life Night Your
Life Rest Your
Having
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Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.
Lawrence Kasdan / Film Producer
Gdp
Lasts
Ten
Western
Years
Dances
Failed
Ten Years
Wolves
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But, George and Steven asked me to write the Indiana Jones sequels, and I didn't want to.
Lawrence Kasdan / Film Producer
Indiana
Sequels
Want
Writing
George
Indiana Jones
Steven
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What you hope for, like Unforgiven did a lot to give you a chance to do it again sometime.
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Sometime
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If your work is going to draw from life, you'd better work very hard to keep up with reality.
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Draws
Hard
Reality
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I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.
Lawrence Kasdan / Film Producer
Humor
Seems
Want
Life Me Everything
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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 / Film Producer
Enjoy
Sequels
Want
Sequel
Viewer
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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 - it just makes the whole struggle more.
Lawrence Kasdan / Film Producer
Couple
Hard Times
Struggle
Couple Times
Genres
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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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Travel
Adventure
Book
Draws
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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 / Film Producer
Conversation
Mean
Talking
Talking Heads
Tired
Heads
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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 / Film Producer
Aliens
Carrie
Done
Exorcist
Horror
Unusual
Movies Done Me
Alien
Brilliantly
New Place
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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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Raiders
Favor
Experience Good Me
George
Jedi
Owed
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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 / Film Producer
Empty
Important
Landscape
Stories
Western
Shakespeare
Westerns
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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 / Film Producer
Opportunity
Thrillers
Unusual
Want
Way
Action Movies
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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.
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Capture
Details
Essence
Great Thing
Sees
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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 / Film Producer
Fans
Film Noir
First Time
Heat
Noir
Stories
Style
Vessel
Extreme
Directed
Huge Fan
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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 / Film Producer
Travel
Acknowledge
Distance
Land
Pace
Western
Currently
Develop
Slowly
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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 / Film Producer
Attitude
Feelings
Menace
Thinking
First Of All
Phantom
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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 / Film Producer
Bathroom
Nightmare
Taboo
Teeth
Brush
Shave
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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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Chill
Comfort
Get Together
Life Together Look
Paradoxically
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