I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that. Lawrence Kasdan Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
What you hope for, like Unforgiven did a lot to give you a chance to do it again sometime. Lawrence Kasdan Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life. Lawrence Kasdan Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
