Kasdan Lawrence Quotes & Sayings

Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge. — Walter Gilbert

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

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

You can make a very heavy and kind of dangerous 3-way shot glass out of a bowling ball. — Demetri Martin

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

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

But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures. — Donald Johanson

I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that. — Lawrence Kasdan

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

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

Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying. — Yoko Ono

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

In addition to this, they already have a fuel cell car on the road in Japan. It is subsidized from within the corporation because they are still at a high cost. — Maurice Strong

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

Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy of love. — Shulamith Firestone

There it was, Hema must have thought; it was both the sorry and the thank-you that was so long overdue, and the funny thing was that at this moment, she didn't care. It no longer mattered. She didn't even look his way. — Abraham Verghese

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

War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity. — George S. Patton

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

My friends call me Wrath," says Raffe. "My enemies call me Please Have Mercy. What's your name, soldier boy? — Susan Ee

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

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

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. — Lupita Nyong'o

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

The people are the masters of the revolution in each country. It is like putting a cart before the horse that foreigners carry out the revolution for them. The revolution can neither be exported nor imported. — Kim Il-sung

It's against my programming to impersonate a deity. — 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

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

Will you keep me safe?" she whispered.
"I promise."
"Then I'll go anywhere with you. — J.L. Bryan

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

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

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