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.
Lawrence KasdanBut, George and Steven asked me to write the Indiana Jones sequels, and I didn't want to.
Lawrence KasdanAlmost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.
Lawrence KasdanI 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