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23 quotes by Lawrence Kasdan

Lawrence Edward Kasdan (born January 14, 1949) is an American screenwriter, director and producer. He is best known as co-writer of the films The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Return of the Jedi. Kasdan has been confirmed to be co-writer for the upcoming third trilogy of Star Wars. He has been nominated for four Oscars: twice for Best Original Screenplay for The Big Chill and Grand Canyon and once for both Best Adapted...
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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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

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

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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

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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... →

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

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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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