American - Producer | January 14, 1949 -
I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palma's best movies.
Lawrence Kasdan
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer.
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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.
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But, George and Steven asked me to write the Indiana Jones sequels, and I didn't want to.
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Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.
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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.
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Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.
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