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Lawrence Kasdan

American Producer

Born: Jan 14, 1949

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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