Quotes About Franchises

#1. I'm not sure that I want my life to consist of Hollywood franchises, to be honest. There are other types of work that I'm interested in, like theater and just more serious drama and I just don't know.

Taron Egerton

#2. All my favorite books and movies are franchises like 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings,' so that was always the dream, that maybe I'll get to write a series of my own.

Victoria Aveyard

#3. I think the biggest challenges for franchises are keeping them fresh and exciting, and most times, you need a good bad guy to make that thing continually work, and sometimes they don't.

Samuel L. Jackson

#4. The only way to grab the attention of the audience is originality. We feed ourselves with franchises that's the opposite of what makes our culture multidimensional and interesting.

Ron Perlman

#5. You've got to enjoy time with your family and friends, and if you're involved in sports franchises, those peak moments in playoff games. You have to enjoy life.

Paul Allen

#6. Businessmen are notable for a peculiarly stalwart character, which enables them to enjoy without loss of self-reliance the benefits of tariffs, franchises, and even outright government subsidies.

Herbert J. Muller

#7. There's no question there needs to be higher-paying opportunities for women. It's not that it hasn't existed in certain categories: Certain women have made a lot of money ... Jennifer Lawrence ... is being paid a lot of money, rightfully so, for the franchises she's in.

Patrick Whitesell

#8. I'm not about saving franchises.

LeBron James

#9. If outsider perspectives made 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Dark Knight' into fantastic franchises, imagine what would happen if you brought in the perspectives of women and people of color.

Annalee Newitz

#10. Movies have kind of become a tad bit uninspired, in that the big studio movies are spending more money to chase the big money with all these franchises and superhero movies. Some of them have been great, but some of them are a little tiresome.

Mark Wahlberg

#11. I don't care what sport you're talking about. What you see with great franchises is structure - a structure that doesn't just take you from year to year, but day to day.

Jason Kidd

#12. Castle Rock and New Line each have their strengths, but the great thing about New Line is that they are a real focused-market, niche-market player who understand franchises. They probably understand the franchise business in motion pictures better than anyone else out there.

Fred Seibert

#13. Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don't just brainstorm; praystorm.

Mark Batterson

#14. I was a big fan of 'Star Trek.' But then again, you know, 'Star Trek', 'Star Wars', 'Doctor Who', I wasn't a big fan, but you know, when they ask you and they cast you and it drops in your lap, how can you say no to these franchises.

Deep Roy

#15. The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.

Gary Bettman

#16. 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

#17. There may be a perception that, with franchises, they're all the same, so that limits the ability to experiment. But that's not true. We've always kept two slots open on the menu of each Subway franchise - slots that franchisees can use to come up with their own sandwich ideas.

Fred DeLuca

#18. No writer can really sustain two huge - I hate the word 'franchises.'

Anthony Horowitz

#19. I think The 'Cheetah Girls' was originally supposed to be one film, but then it became two and three, which was a huge deal. But like all Disney franchises, they have to come to an end at some point. I was so grateful we went out with a bang. I think we died off peacefully.

Adrienne Bailon

#20. Working with franchises can be challenging, but at the same time I really did enjoy working on 'Star Wars,' for example, and I have done a lot of 'Dungeons & Dragons' games, but I still enjoy it very much.

Chris Avellone

#21. Most movies don't have the ability to find an audience. So the movie plays out very quickly in a lot of theaters to get the biggest gross. So that demands that we make things that are hits before they open. So they have to have the elements, they have to be franchises.

Laura Ziskin

#22. I consider the Detroit Red Wings one of the greatest franchises in any sport. For a player to come in and play, it's so special to wear the jersey.

Steve Yzerman

#23. Suddenly, all the giant Hollywood franchises are being driven by alternative filmmakers.

Annalee Newitz

#24. I never think about franchises, to be honest. I always just do the film.

Luc Besson

#25. Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of competitors into a given field, by legislative action.

Ayn Rand

#26. Look at Cillian Murphy: 'Batman,' 'Tron' ... those are some heavy-hitting franchises. But he works his way around it. He manages to have a great career and a great life.

Domhnall Gleeson

#27. Females create life, males end it. War, crime, violence, are primarily male franchises. Man shit. It's nature's supreme joke.
Deep in the womb, men start out as the good thing, and wind up as the crappy thing. Not all men. Just enough. Just enough to fuck things up.

George Carlin

#28. My main point about films is that I don't like the adaptation process, and I particularly don't like the modern way of comic book-film adaptations, where, essentially, the central characters are just franchises that can be worked endlessly to no apparent point.

Alan Moore

#29. I turned down one of the big young adult franchises.

Douglas Booth

#30. With all these tentpoles, franchises, reboots and sequels, is there still room for movies in the movie business?

Lynda Obst

#31. In regards to those other franchises that are being remade, we must take pains to mention that we're the only one where the original creators are actually making the movie. It's a special feel of quality, like a Good Housekeeping quality.

David Kirschner

#32. G.I. Joe has a heart and an attitude that feels right and familiar to me, so they could have ray guns, and they'd still feel more like real troops than many other franchises.

Karen Traviss

#33. I expect us to be good; very good. I expect us to first and foremost be better than we were last year and get back to having this franchise as one of the premier franchises on and off the court, and I think we have the opportunity to do that this upcoming season. I really believe that.

Grant Hill

#34. Franchises aren't to be avoided. They can be exciting, and they give you opportunities to do other films.

Daniel Radcliffe

#35. I feel very fortunate to have been a part of many successful contemporary horror franchises.

Corey Feldman

#36. Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place.

William Least Heat-Moon

#37. Now that the Harry Potter series is over, maybe the truth can be realized: This has been the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises.

Armond White

#38. The other [video game] franchises let you experience the adrenaline and horror of war, or deep fantasy worlds, or pro sports. A Mario game lets you pretend to be a middle-aged chubster hopping onto a turtle shell.

Jeff Ryan

#39. In the greed-is-good tradition of the 'Harry Potter' and 'Twilight' movie franchises, the overseers of 'The Hunger Games' have split the last book into two films.

Richard Corliss

#40. Oakland has now increased its payroll to the point that it now ranks third in the Bay Area among all McDonald's franchises.

Sandy Alderson

#41. We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises.

Bob Iger

#42. I have no problem selling books to media franchises and we do it all the time. The author must understand that he/she is a writer for hire and has no control over copyright or over editorial changes made to the text.

Richard Curtis

#43. I like the idea of R-rated franchises.

David Fincher

#44. I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that.

Kevin Costner