"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"
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"An opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way" is the tell. Kasdan isn’t chasing novelty as a gimmick; he’s describing a production mindset where the camera isn’t just recording performances, it’s solving problems. Action and thriller grammar forces decisions: where information is withheld, when it’s released, how movement is legible, how danger is felt. Kurosawa becomes shorthand for the director as strategist, turning blocking, weather, and cutting into narrative propulsion.
The subtext is a gentle pushback against the idea that serious filmmakers are born out of solemn dramas. Kasdan came up in the post-studio, New Hollywood-to-blockbuster bridge era, writing and producing projects that had to be both elegant and broadly entertaining. So "I was looking for something like that" reads less like fandom than like career design: find a form that demands invention on set, day after day, and you’ll never have to pretend cinema is anything other than motion, tension, and choice.
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Kasdan, Lawrence. (2026, January 15). 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. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-movies-that-made-me-want-to-make-movies-were-153733/
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Kasdan, Lawrence. "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." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-movies-that-made-me-want-to-make-movies-were-153733/.
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"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." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-movies-that-made-me-want-to-make-movies-were-153733/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.
