3 December 2020 Lawrence Kasdan I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Lawrence Kasdan I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palma’s best movies.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Lawrence Kasdan I didn’t really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Lawrence Kasdan What you hope for, like Unforgiven did a lot to give you a chance to do it again sometime.
