I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palmas best movies. – 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
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. – Lawrence Kasdan
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
Look up at the miracle of the falling snow,—the air a dizzy maze of whirling, eddying flakes, noiselessly transforming the world, the exquisite crystals dropping in ditch and gutter, and disguising in the same suit of spotless livery all objects upon which they fall. – John Burroughs, “The Snow-Walkers,” 1866