Quotes & Sayings About Movie Sequels

The trick with sequels is, you have to give people what they liked before, yet be innovative enough so they don't feel like they're seeing the same movie. — Harold Ramis

Summer movie idea: take all the sequels that are out right now, and make movies about their backstories. — Stephen Colbert

With all these tentpoles, franchises, reboots and sequels, is there still room for movies in the movie business? — Lynda Obst

I think I've done a lot of movies that people would like to have seen a sequel to. But I grew up in a time when we didn't do sequels. You just did a movie because you wanted to do a movie and you wanted to tell a story. It wasn't to build a franchise. — Kurt Russell

The reason why people don't get called back to sequels is because they did badly in the original [movie]. — Omari Hardwick

Is this a movie?' I heard someone ask.
Naw- this is too original for Hollywood. They do sequels. — James Patterson

We were lucky to get Sam Jackson and Jeremy Irons and John McTiernan back. Long movie and hard movie to make and difficult for me because instead of working, my biggest concern was not repeating things I had done it in the previous films. And it rang notes in my head of episodic TV. A sequel is not a new movie; it's a chapter in a movie that you have already seen. Thank god Sam was there and thank god Jeremy was there. Again, it went outside the template of that series of films but it did well and made a ton of dough and the third chapter of a lot of sequels is always the one that falls down. — Bruce Willis

I don't like sequels at all. If the movie's good the first time, why bother? — Michael Lehmann

You know for years before the notion of sequels, actors were the franchise. John Wayne would rarely do sequels, but he kind of played the same guy with a different name in every movie. I have no problem with using actors as franchises. And that's what is fun to do. — Joel Silver