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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, Return of the Jedi, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and Solo: A Star Wars Story.

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

Brian, Carrie, Liked, Movies

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.

Empty, Important, Kind, Landscape, Stories, Western

I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer.

Enjoy, Sequel, Sequels, Sort, Viewer, Want

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.

Alien, Aliens, Carrie, Done, Exorcist, Horror

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

Asked, Indiana, Sequels, Want, Write, Writing

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.

Attitude, Changes, Feelings, Make, Movies, Thinking

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

Humor, Want, Seems, Life, Everything

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.

Day, Opportunity, Shoot, Want, Way

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.

Antithetical, Distance, Land, Sort, Things, Travel

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.

Travel, Book, Adventure, Read, Part

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

Dances, Gdp, Lasts, Wolves, Years

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.

Heads, Mean, Relationship, Talking, Tired, Ways

It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

Deities, Deity, Impersonate, Programming, Statistics

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

Writing, Night, Rest Of Your Life, Homework, Life

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.

Couple, Done, Hard Times, Struggle, Times, Tough

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.

Fans, Firsts, Heat, Kind, Style, Tell

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

Reality, Draws, Hard, Life, Work

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

Billy, Stories, Western, Wilder