Lawrence Kasdan Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

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