Sequels Quotes

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

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

We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism. ~ Jason Biggs

There would be no sequel to the sadness ~ Salvador Plascencia

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

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

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

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

The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use. I suppose the plot of 'Curses' makes a sequel conceivable when compared with, say, the plot of 'Hamlet' but none is planned. ~ Graham Nelson

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

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

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

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

Why not dream your own wonderful sequels? When you have finished a book, it can go on in your mind, the characters doing just what you want them to do. ~ Marguerite Henry

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

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

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

You sign for a sequel for everything these days, just in case, options. In the past, you avoided them like the plague because it meant somewhere down the road you couldn't take a job because you had to do a sequel. Now it's a feature of pretty much any feature you do. ~ Mark Strong

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

Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways. ~ Nick Hornby

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning. ~ Jane Austen

On the sequel, you've lost the element of surprise. Usually, on the first one you may not go very, very deep into character; the second one you start to explore the character a bit more. ~ Sylvester Stallone

In an industry afflicted by sequelitis, it has taken John Boorman almost three decades to make the sequel to his much-cherished Hope and Glory, but Queen and Country turns out to be well worth the wait. ~ Joe Morgenstern

That's kind of my ideal sequel - a movie that continues the story, takes one character and moves on, and moves forward with that character that survived with the first one. ~ Fede Alvarez

I didn't think one day something would happen that would bring me back to Wall Street to write what is essentially a sequel. ~ Michael Lewis

Father's Day just be Mother's Day the sequel. ~ J. B. Smoove

And one thing Hollywood does well is sequels. ~ Spike Lee

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

I think that building any product that has a lot of user loyalty is a bit like making a sequel to a great movie or video game - people generally want 'more of the same thing, except better and different.' ~ Yishan Wong

I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those. ~ Jessica Biel

On playing Batman and his daughter: If I was doing the sequel to Frozen I would be a hero. My two older daughters could give a sh-t about Batman and they've now passed that affection onto my son. He's always like, 'Papa, can I watch Frozen?' And I'm like, 'No, dude, it's not on again!'. ~ Ben Affleck

John and I had a few meetings about what direction the sequel should take. I made some real insane suggestions. True to what you'd expect, he ignored them all and just picked up Halloween II where the original left off. ~ Donald Pleasence

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

Sequels are desperate. ~ Adam McKay

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

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

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

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

They're just not into doing sequels after Toy Story so I don't think that's a possibility. But if they did, well sure, you'd have to do it. And I'd want to do it. ~ Craig T. Nelson

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself. ~ Don Marquis

I didn't make the same song twice, but I definitely made the sequel to it, because everyone would come up to me in the streets saying, Yo Khaled, make another 'I'm So Hood.' We love that record so much. ~ DJ Khaled

In features, one of the goals is to have the audience walk out, fully satisfied. In today's world, it's maybe wanting a sequel. ~ Michael Brandt

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

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

For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson. ~ Plato

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

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'd love to make a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' The film didn't do as well at the box office as we all hoped, but it has endured and generated a following. ~ Joe Johnston

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

It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn't a who or a what, he's an idea. The thing is, you couldn't continue it. Now and then the idea of a sequel has been raised, in vague forms, but I think it would be a bad idea. The story's finished. ~ David Lloyd

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

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

'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

I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it. ~ Sam Raimi

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

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

I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

America has no now. We're reluctant to acknowledge the present. It's too embarrassing.
Instead, we reach into the past. Our culture is composed of sequels, reruns, remakes, revivals, reissues, re-releases, recreations, reenactments, adaptations, anniversaries, memorabilia, oldies radio, and nostalgia record collections. World War II has been refought so many times, the Germans and Japanese are now drawing residuals. ~ George Carlin

I don't write any kind of sequel or remake. ~ Bong Joon-ho

I would love to see a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' I'd love to see that! I don't know that I would be in it. I may be a little long in the tooth to play 'The Rocketeer.' But I would love to be a part of that in some form or fashion. ~ Billy Campbell

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

I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. ~ L. Frank Baum

Your book is smart and beautiful. I want to have its sequels. ~ Scott Westerfeld

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

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

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

Sequels always have to be bigger. ~ Brandon Sanderson

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

I think a lot of people end up making sequels to movies just because the first one did a lot of business, and I think what people have learned is that it doesn't matter if the first one did a lot of business or that people want to go see another one just to see another one. ~ Neal H. Moritz

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

I don't think George Lucas would want you to do this," her mom said. "I didn't know you knew who George Lucas was." "Please. I was watching Star Wars movies before you were born. Your dad and I saw Empire Strikes Back five times in the theater." "Lucky," Elena said. "George Lucas is a father of daughters," her mother said. "He wouldn't want young girls freezing to death to prove their loyalty." "This isn't about George Lucas," Elena said. "He isn't even that involved in the sequels." "Come home," her mom said. "We'll watch Empire Strikes Back and I'll make hot cocoa." "I can't," Elena said. "I'll lose my place in line." "I think it will still be there for you in the morning." "Goodnight, Mom. ~ Rainbow Rowell

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

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

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'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

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

I never had a story for the sequels, for the last trilogy. That's not really part of the plan at this point, and I'll be at the age where to do another trilogy would take 10 years. I'd always envisioned it as six movies. When you see it in six parts you'll understand that it really ends at part six. ~ George Lucas

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

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

Early in my career, I decided not to do sequels. I know that children enjoy them, but I valued the feeling that this was the only time I would write about these characters. I felt it gave me an added incentive to do my best by them, to tell readers everything I knew, to hold nothing back. ~ Betsy Byars

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

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

Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through. ~ Wislawa Szymborska

When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world. ~ Damon Lindelof

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

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

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

I love cartoons. So when they came to me to make Ice Age and this sequel, I was so happy. ~ John Leguizamo

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

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

He crouched down next to me. I put my hand on the hem of his jeans. It was the first time I'd touched him since that day in the cafeteria line.
"I've got so much to tell you," he said, so quietly I almost couldn't hear. "Been thinking about how to even start."
"Start anywhere," I whispered. "I just want to know."
"I feel like I've already told you everything, in a way. I've been talking to you in my head for eight years, writing epics and sequels to epics, and sequels to the sequels."
I let my fingers move down to the laces of his boots, then up to the top of his sock. One more millimeter and my fingertip would be against his skin. I moved it back down, resting on the knob of his ankle. "I'm here now," I said. "You can talk to me, right out loud."
Just then, two boys, eight or nine years old, crashed into the grove, leaping over the stream like we had. They froze when they saw us; I jerked my hand away from Cameron's ankle and sat up.
"Oh," one boy said, "hi."
"Hi," I said. "We were just leaving." I got up without Cameron's help, brushed myself off, and followed him back to the parking lot. ~ Sara Zarr

I was aware that I had to pay off things in a convincing emotional fashion, that I had to address the lingering plot points in some real tangible sense, and that I had to make this a self-contained novel, in case I'm run over by a bus tomorrow or in case there's no demand for anyone to ever see a sequel. (Two things that I hope don't happen, incidentally.) ~ Tod Goldberg

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

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around. ~ Barry Sonnenfeld

Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been? ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

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

There are a lot of parallels between doing a sequel and doing low budget movies, which is they give creative parameters. As a creative person myself, I work better with parameters as opposed to anything goes. ~ Jason Blum

The fundamental purpose of storytelling is to pass the time, which is infinite, slow, and weighs heavy in our hands. When the first storyteller, having told the first story, fell silent, somebody sitting there by the fire said, "Then what happened?" and the Age of Sequels began. ~ Michael Chabon

There's a certain amount of empathy you need to have, and I've also never been one to call it in. I know some roles are easier for certain people, especially when there's the sequel and a third and a fourth one. ~ Kim Basinger