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Daily Inspiration Quote by Lawrence Kasdan

"It's hard enough to get any movie made, and when you take on these tough genres - and I've done it a couple times - it just makes the whole struggle more"

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Kasdan isn’t romanticizing the grind so much as puncturing the fantasy that “good ideas” naturally become movies. The line lands because it’s half lament, half quiet flex: he’s been in the room where projects die for reasons that have nothing to do with artistry, and he’s also survived that room “a couple times.” That parenthetical is doing real work. It signals scar tissue, not swagger, and it invites you to hear the rest as earned knowledge rather than generic industry complaining.

The phrase “any movie” is the tell. He’s stripping filmmaking down to logistics: financing, scheduling, packaging talent, appeasing multiple stakeholders, navigating shifting studio priorities. Then he twists the knife with “tough genres,” a euphemism that covers everything studios fear: narratives that don’t pitch cleanly, tones that can’t be reduced to a trailer, stories that court controversy or ambiguity, projects that demand adult attention in a marketplace obsessed with instant clarity. “Genre” here isn’t just marketing; it’s a risk profile.

The unfinished ending - “the whole struggle more” - feels like an honest trailing off, as if the list of obstacles is so long it resists a neat finish. Subtext: Kasdan’s talking about creative ambition as a tax. Want to make something moodier, stranger, less franchisable? You’re not just choosing a different story. You’re choosing a harder political fight, longer odds, and more chances to be told to sand it down until it stops being the thing you wanted to make.

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Kasdan, Lawrence. (2026, January 15). It's hard enough to get any movie made, and when you take on these tough genres - and I've done it a couple times - it just makes the whole struggle more. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-hard-enough-to-get-any-movie-made-and-when-164141/

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Kasdan, Lawrence. "It's hard enough to get any movie made, and when you take on these tough genres - and I've done it a couple times - it just makes the whole struggle more." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-hard-enough-to-get-any-movie-made-and-when-164141/.

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"It's hard enough to get any movie made, and when you take on these tough genres - and I've done it a couple times - it just makes the whole struggle more." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-hard-enough-to-get-any-movie-made-and-when-164141/. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.

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Lawrence Kasdan (born January 14, 1949) is a Producer from USA.

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