Lawrence Kasdan Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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.