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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 Kasdan

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Lawrence Kasdan
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 14
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Lawrence Edward Kasdan
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