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. – Lawrence Kasdan

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 – its almost the antithetical of whats currently going on in the movies, you know. – Lawrence Kasdan

I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies Ive done, is theres only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads. – Lawrence Kasdan