Quotes & Sayings About Sequels

All novels are sequels; influence is bliss. — Michael Chabon

I'm still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They've been very generous in letting me on a very long leash to just work on 'The Passage' and its sequels. — Justin Cronin

Large like the Beatles, ask all my peoples, never make movies, so don't talk sequels. — Pete Rock

Because I want to be treated as equals, not sequels. — Nina Ardianti

I'm not looking for sequels, but when something comes to you, and you're already a fan of that world, you have the desire to do it your way. — Daniel Radcliffe

And it isn't a mistake in taste, like believing that the Matrix sequels were as good as the original. — Paul Bloom

I like doing sequels. Basically, I think it's a fun thing to follow characters in time. In real time. — Julie Delpy

The film studios learned to our dismay but to their pleasure that if they spent $200 million making a film they could make half a billion on it. So they were not interested anymore in quality films ... They can't afford to be that risky at those prices. Consequently you're getting a lot of remakes, sequels, dopey comedies full of toilet jokes. — Woody Allen

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

I never actually plan sequels. They demand to be done. — Ellen Hopkins

Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels. — Andrew Motion

The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original. — Dean Koontz

Sequels to most movies are always fluff and not as good as the first, — Ray Allen

When you do films that have multiple sequels, you develop a character for a film. — Warwick Davis

Great success breeds a lot of things, including sequels. — Dwayne Johnson

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

He's like the tiger shark in Jaws. The one Dreyfuss cuts open in the fisherman's basement. That's why we named him Hooper. You remember the tiger shark? He had a license plate in his stomach?" "I never saw Jaws. I caught one of the sequels on TV in rehab. The one with Michael Caine." Another silence followed, this one awestruck and wondering. "Jesus. No wonder we didn't last," Lou said. — Joe Hill

Sequels are desperate. — Adam McKay

At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different than the original. — John Lasseter

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

I think sequels are fine if there's a story, so I think when there is a property that is worthy of a sequel, it could very well happen! — Roy Conli

I am wary of sequels. I understand them from the studio's point of view, but the audience doesn't want more, they want better, and I thought the second 'Ghostbusters' was not very effective, it did not really work, so there's no reason to believe a third would. I'm more interested in new things. — Rick Moranis

I knew the President would run for reelection in 1984. Why not? Actors love sequels ... and returns. — Bob Hope

After all, I wasn't even sure if the ancient causes belonged to me in the first place because being born into a belief tended to make me feel more like I belonged to it instead. — J.D. Brewer

My experience is that sequels are rarely as good as the originals. — Sarah Dessen

I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer. — Andrew Motion

A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people you can actually connect to. — Hayden Schlossberg

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

I am a fan of sequels even though they are inevitably awful. — Joss Whedon

If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way. — Fede Alvarez

My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film. — Vin Diesel

That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat. — Adam McKay

Stories are better than fiction, so let's hope for some real-life sequels. — Katherine Ramsland

I'm sure they will have more sequels for 'Tarzan' where he goes to England, school, and whatever else they can think of. It's a natural that they will continue the series. — Kevin Lima

It's always scary when you're doing a sequel to a film, because you don't want to just repeat the first film in a different location like most sequels. You want to do something totally different, and something that actually expands the world of the main character. — Efren Ramirez

If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days. — Albert Brooks

That's the hardest thing about doing sequels - you've lost the element of surprise. — Sylvester Stallone

I hate the idea of sequels. I think you should be able to do it in one book. — Jane Gardam

I'm not much on sequels; I'm not much on remakes for the most part. I don't really like or dislike them. — Kurt Russell

I hate sequels. They're never as good as the first book. — Connie Willis

There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell. — J.J. Abrams

I'm just trying to think what other sequels there were. There was the James Bond movies and not many. I think sequels have become a recent idea of franchising. — Ridley Scott

I'm not contractually obligated to sequels on anything. — Nicolas Cage

We are at a point in the video game industry that the industry is hollowed out. It is out of touch with the zeitgeist, creating sequels and formulaic games over and over again. The energy comes from the indies. — Mitch Lasky

Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels. — Andrew Stanton

Before sequels became the most reliable way to make a buck, Bond set the standard for lavish serial adventures. Before Hollywood found gold in multimillion-dollar adaptations of comic-book characters - in the Superman, Batman and Spider-Man blockbusters - Bond was the movies' first big-budget franchise superhero. — Richard Corliss

In 'Scream 2', they have this discussion about how sequels always suck. — Thomas Bangalter

I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked. — Carl Hiaasen

Audiences can be leery of sequels; the studios make a hit, they see dollar signs, and they make a cheap rip-off. — William Katt

Love like life should be maddening to the point of fulfillment. It should make the sun shine brighter, and when they look at you, the earth should never be standing still. — Nicole Banks

Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time. — Ben Barnes

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

You only have to go hardcore humiliation on the first film. On the subsequent sequels, you can coast. — Jack Black

Sure, you could go out and make Jaws today. But all of the sequels to Jaws weren't good. They are all worthless. The Godfather II is the only sequel that I have ever seen that is as good as or better than the original. — William Friedkin

Clearly any film company that makes a film is always going to talk about sequels particularly if they see something as being successful, which Werewolf was. — Jenny Agutter

I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore. — Madhur Bhandarkar

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

As long as we, again, kind of keep earning the sequels with material and I'm confident Mike can, I'm in. You know I always want to do those. But I also want to keep going in some of the direction as Meet the Parents has. — Jay Roach

My favorite sequels are basically all Mike Myers films - 'Wayne's World 2,' 'Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,' 'Shrek 2.' Anything he does, it's best the second time around. He needs to do 'So I Married an Axe Murderer 2.' — Adam DeVine

I think sequels are very dangerous if you assume and presume success. I think you have to plan each film as a standalone and commit yourself to that as your primary objective. — Hutch Parker

Of course it would be great to sell lots and lots of copies of The Beast of Cretacea. But the bottom line for me is to sell enough copies to convince my publisher to let me do a sequel. I spent three years creating the world of Cretacea and the personalities of all the characters who inhabit it. All I want to do now is go back. — Todd Strasser

Had the rights to make all the sequels and exploit the characters. I made a presentation that said, here's the 15% of Pixar that Disney does not already own. So that's — Walter Isaacson

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... and further, governments were sufficiently distracted by war to leave economic affairs to businessmen.
The contagious creation of nation-states in the late nineteenth century led to what we saw with the two world wars and their sequels. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Our children are our sequels. Our parents are our prequels. All living beings are our equals. — Ashok K. Banker

Star Wars was a total piece of shit that had spawned billions of dollars in merchandise and sequels and books and games and pajama bottoms. It was an infinite reservoir, it was an endless void. It was responsible for a cornucopia of made up words like Jedi, the Force and lightsaber.

A lightsaber was a sword made of light. A sword was a weapon used to murder people.

A Jedi was a knight who believed in an idea of relative good and performed supernatural feats using the Force. A Jedi used supernatural feats and his lightsaber to murder people with opposing ideas of relative good.

The Force was an ill-explained mystical energy which ran throughout the fictional universe of Star Wars. It was a device which allowed characters to perform supernatural feats whenever a lull was created by poor writing in the screenplay.

As might be imagined, the Force was used with great frequency. — Jarett Kobek

I'm not a huge fan of prequels and sequels and the cynical rush to make money on the back of books by other writers who are now dead. — Anthony Horowitz

We wanted to do a sequel with Jim and Jeff. They said that the word was that Jim didn't want to do any sequels. We approached him and he said he would do it, but not until next year. New Line said it was too long to wait. — Bobby Farrelly

The reason why Hollywood cranks out so many sequels and adaptations is because the audience is so overwhelmed with choices, the only way to get them in the theater is to give them something familiar. — David Wong

When I first started you would pitch a story because without a good story, you didn't really have a film. Later, once sequels started to take off, you pitched a character because a good character could support multiple stories. and now, you pitch a world because a world can support multiple characters and multiple stories across multiple media. — Henry Jenkins

I feel the way I always do about sequels. If there's an idea that excites me enough, and it feels like a way to do something new and fresh, then great. But I don't ever want to do a sequel just for the sake of doing a sequel. — Drew Goddard

People make sequels a lot in Hollywood, and sometimes it feels like there's never an original thought. — Jacqueline Bisset

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

I like to write about a lot of things, which is why my books are different. This is probably why I don't like to write sequels, but chiefly I like to write about people. — Katherine Paterson

Donegan Bane and Gracious O'Callahan - the Monster Hunters. Adventurers, inventors, authors of Monster Hunting for Beginners and it's sequels, Monster Hunting for Beginners is Probably Inadvisable and Seriously, Dude, Stop Monster Hunting. — Derek Landy

I've just written a very gritty, non-magical take on the King Arthur legend, 'Here Lies Arthur,' and I'm currently toying with some other historical ideas, as well as working with the illustrator David Wyatt on some sequels to my Victorian space opera 'Larklight.' — Philip Reeve

I pointedly avoid doing sequels, since for the most part I find that a sequel rarely stands up to the original. — Jerry Spinelli

I always like to make sequels. It's a nice business to be in. — Joel Silver

I'm not big on sequels; I've done them, but I like doing little things that have their own timelessness to them, classic type things, and then you go onto something new. — John Travolta

Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand. — Francis Ford Coppola

To everyone who thinks writing a sequel should be easy because you've already clreated the universe: Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha! Heh. No. — John Scalzi

A lot of people ask for sequels, but what they really want is just to know the characters are happy and safe. — Kristan Higgins

While I always thought of making sequels to movies like 'Ghayal,' the filmmakers would almost always veto the idea. — Sunny Deol

I've always avoided sequels, unless I felt there was something fresh. — Ridley Scott

We all know the dangers of sequels. Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place too often, and I think you've got to move beyond it, go the extra mile and have the courage not to just repeat the first one. — Colin Firth

But, George and Steven asked me to write the Indiana Jones sequels, and I didn't want to. — Lawrence Kasdan

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

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation ... — Samuel Johnson

I've never had good fortune with sequels. Everyone says this time is going to be better. And then I've done them and they've just been not - they weren't better. — Sandra Bullock

When people write fan-fic sequels to one of your books, it gives you a very strange feeling. It is very flattering but strange, as if the characters have come to life again without you knowing. — Geraldine McCaughrean

What they don't realize is that sequels are bound to disappoint those who have waited for them. — Matthew Pearl

I think Hollywood is in love with sequels. If it's successful once, just jazz it up and shoot it out there again. I think it's unfortunate. — Paul Newman

I suppose sequels are inevitable for a writer of a certain age. — John Updike

As far as expense, I think if 'Twilight' does well enough, then we should be able to do the big expensive stuff for the sequels. I mean, we have to have werewolves, there's no way around it. They have to be there. — Stephenie Meyer

I don't know if I would do sequels. I almost feel like when I'm done with them, they're going to have to find their own way. — Anne Rivers Siddons

I think sequels should be earned and we won't do it unless the script is better than the first one. — Jay Roach

In some ways, you get to find your voice better in [a sequel] because you have to define how you're doing it differently. — Daniel Radcliffe

I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.' — Robert M. Pirsig

After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever. — Adam DeVine

'Troll 2' is one of the rare sequels where you don't have to waste time watching the first one, since the films have absolutely nothing to do with one another. — Eli Roth