Kasdan, Lawrence Filmography

• Star Wars: Episode VII
  2015, role: writer
• Star Wars: Episode VII
  2015, role: miscellaneous crew
• Jerusalem, I Love You
  2014, role: director
• Kathleen Kennedy 2013 Pioneer of the Year Award Tribute Reel
  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Darling Companion
  2012, role: producer
• Darling Companion
  2012, role: director
• Darling Companion
  2012, role: writer
• Darling Companion
  2012, role: actor , character name: Man on Street
• Paradise Lost
  2011, role: writer
• Untitled Big Chill Remake
  2011, role: writer
• In the Land of Women
  2007, role: producer
• The TV Set
  2006, role: producer
• All of What Follows Is True: The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'
  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Miracles and Mystery: Creating 'The Green Mile'
  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool
  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself - Interviewee
• Memories of 'The Bodyguard'
  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Empire of Dreams: The Story of the 'Star Wars' Trilogy
  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself - Writer
• It Happened That Way
  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself - Director
• It Happened That Way
  2004, role: actor , character name: Producer
• It Happened That Way
  2004, role: actor , character name: Screenwriter
• It's Like Life
  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself - Writer
• It's Like Life
  2004, role: actor , character name: Producer
• It's Like Life
  2004, role: actor , character name: Director
• The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Force Is with Them: The Legacy of 'Star Wars'
  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself - Screenwriter, 'The Empire Strikes Back'
• Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Dreamcatcher
  2003, role: producer
• Dreamcatcher
  2003, role: director
• Dreamcatcher
  2003, role: writer
• 100 Greatest Sexy Moments
  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Big Show
  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'
  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Big Chill: A Reunion
  1999, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Mumford
  1999, role: writer
• The Making of 'Silverado'
  1999, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Mumford
  1999, role: producer
• Mumford
  1999, role: director
• One Vision
  1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Home Fries
  1998, role: producer
• As Good as It Gets
  1997, role: actor , character name: Dr. Green
• Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery
  1997, role: actor , character name: Himself
• French Kiss
  1995, role: director
• Wyatt Earp
  1994, role: producer
• Wyatt Earp
  1994, role: actor , character name: Gambler
• Wyatt Earp
  1994, role: writer
• Wyatt Earp
  1994, role: director
• Wyatt Earp: Walk with a Legend
  1994, role: actor , character name: Himself - Director
• The Bodyguard
  1992, role: producer
• Jumpin' at the Boneyard
  1992, role: producer

Famous quotes by Lawrence Kasdan:

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The great thing about Stephen is that he sees the movie as a separate thing, I think. He wants it to capture the essence of the book, and if he feels that's been done, then he's not too particular about the details. I think that's why he's happy."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"What you hope for, like Unforgiven did a lot to give you a chance to do it again sometime."

"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."

"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."

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

"You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there."

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

"You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man."