Quotes About Sequels

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. There's a real danger in doing a sequel. There are some benefits, but that all hinges on how well you execute. Quite frankly, most sequels don't execute well.

Donnie Wahlberg

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. I've always avoided sequels, unless I felt there was something fresh.

Ridley Scott

#7. In 'Scream 2', they have this discussion about how sequels always suck.

Thomas Bangalter

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

Julie Delpy

#9. Publishers are very risk-averse, so they lean towards licenses and sequels. But the fact is that even those are not guaranteed hits. So, if 'playing it safe' does not guarantee hits, they might as well leave it up to the really creative, risk-taking people, because they couldn't do any worse.

Tim Schafer

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. Stories are better than fiction, so let's hope for some real-life sequels.

Katherine Ramsland

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

Stephen Colbert

#14. 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

#15. I never actually plan sequels. They demand to be done.

Ellen Hopkins

#16. I always like to make sequels. It's a nice business to be in.

Joel Silver

#17. 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

#18. I'm not contractually obligated to sequels on anything.

Nicolas Cage

#19. My experience is that sequels are rarely as good as the originals.

Sarah Dessen

#20. Our children are our sequels. Our parents are our prequels. All living beings are our equals.

Ashok K. Banker

#21. 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

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

Jay Roach

#23. 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

#24. 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

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

Lynda Obst

#26. 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

#27. Your book is smart and beautiful. I want to have its sequels.

Scott Westerfeld

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. I am a fan of sequels even though they are inevitably awful.

Joss Whedon

#32. 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

#33. Sequels are desperate.

Adam McKay

#34. 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

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

Omari Hardwick

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. I hate the idea of sequels. I think you should be able to do it in one book.

Jane Gardam

#40. Great success breeds a lot of things, including sequels.

Dwayne Johnson

#41. I suppose sequels are inevitable for a writer of a certain age.

John Updike

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell.

J.J. Abrams

#45. Because I want to be treated as equals, not sequels.

Nina Ardianti

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. When you do films that have multiple sequels, you develop a character for a film.

Warwick Davis

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

Matthew Pearl

#52. 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

#53. Large like the Beatles, ask all my peoples, never make movies, so don't talk sequels.

Pete Rock

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

William Katt

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

Andrew Motion

#56. That's the hardest thing about doing sequels - you've lost the element of surprise.

Sylvester Stallone

#57. From an entertainment point of view, the Solar System has been a bust. None of the planets turns out to have any real-estate potential, and most of them are probably even useless for filming Dune sequels.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#58. I knew the President would run for reelection in 1984. Why not? Actors love sequels ... and returns.

Bob Hope

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. I hate sequels. They're never as good as the first book.

Connie Willis

#64. 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

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

Paul Bloom

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

James Patterson

#67. 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

#68. All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.

Michael Chabon

#69. 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

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

Sam Raimi

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.

Adam DeVine

#75. 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

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

Andrew Stanton

#77. 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

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

Jerry Spinelli

#79. 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

#80. 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

#81. 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

#82. 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

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

Sunny Deol

#84. 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

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

Jacqueline Bisset

#86. 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

#87. 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

#88. 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

#89. 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

#90. 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

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

Michael Lehmann

#92. 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

#93. 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

#94. You only have to go hardcore humiliation on the first film. On the subsequent sequels, you can coast.

Jack Black

#95. Sequels to most movies are always fluff and not as good as the first,

Ray Allen

#96. 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

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

Kristan Higgins

#98. '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

#99. 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

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

Ben Barnes