Top 100 Sequel Quotes
#1. But my thoughts
breed truths
that my heart
can't
bare.
Like Melody.
Kenya Wright
#2. A deadly sin that brings no evil material sequel to the satisfaction afforded by committing it is one thing. A deadly sin that gives you the stomach-ache is quite another.
Rafael Sabatini
#3. He shot everything that moved in a blind fury. It was as if he were floating outside his body, his flesh acting on pure animal instinct. To kill or be killed. It was exhilarating.
Rebecca M. Gibson
#4. 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
#5. The first sequel thing I wrote was this 'Forever Dawn' thing that will never get out, because it's horrid. But it's a really good outline for 'Breaking Dawn' - it's very similar. I knew what I was doing, which is good, because I think if I hadn't, there might have been a lot of pressure.
Stephenie Meyer
#6. Either way, you wrote the book and now you're complaining about the reviews I'm giving it," I quipped.
"Fair enough." He held up his hands, "I'm going to start writing the sequel which will be considerably less narcissistic. Will you read it?"
"Only if every other girl on campus hasn't.
Tarryn Fisher
#7. Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost; a sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter.
John Burroughs
#8. I am actually working on The Neighbors sitcom. We are starting from scratch. I am also working on a comedy movie and a vampire movie. I also have the pilot for The Tommy Wiseau Show and of course The House That Drips Blood On Alex, which we are hoping to make a sequel.
Tommy Wiseau
#9. A magical blending of mystery, romance, and deep and dangerous secrets. Kelly Parra's Invisible Touch is an action-packed coming-of-age novel, sure to keep readers turning pages and begging for a sequel.
Laurie Faria Stolarz
#10. You might have been able to fool people the first time, or something, but you really can't make a successful sequel today unless people really, really liked the predecessor.
Neal H. Moritz
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Jaws 4 is so bad it makes Jaws 3 look like Jaws 2.
Neil Perryman
#15. At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel.
Clint Eastwood
#16. I love cartoons. So when they came to me to make Ice Age and this sequel, I was so happy.
John Leguizamo
#17. Go out and find a copy of 'The Shrinking Of Treehorn' and its sequel, 'Treehorn's Treasure.' Written by Florence Parry Heide and illustrated by the great Edward Gorey, master of the gothic and the macabre, these books are small masterpieces.
Chris Riddell
#18. 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
#19. When they write the sequel to the Bible, that shit is definitely gonna be in there.
David Wong
#20. We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.
Rollo May
#21. 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
#22. Fuck you and them... I don't like this rules!
Deyth Banger
#23. We live in a country where voting rights get gutted but Sharknado gets a sequel.
John Fugelsang
#24. It's tough, man. Unless it's a tentpole, sequel, remake, or over-the-top comedy, that's all the studios are even doing. They've kind of admitted they're not in the business of doing anything else. The slightest level of irony or intelligence and, boom, you're out of the league, you're done.
Richard Linklater
#26. I don't know about doing a sequel. I think you can retroactively damage a product by adding to it.
Simon Pegg
#27. What does the absolutely final deadline apply to? What book?"
If there was one book that did not cry out for a sequel, it was "Death of a Doge". "Don't you remember what an awful time you had writing that book?
Martha Grimes
#28. I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.
Chuck Palahniuk
#29. I do think that at a certain point, the reboot sequel mode has to give way to original ideas and back to a place where, you know, films are, you know, a medium and the cinema is a place you go to see something that is, you know, wholly new.
J.J. Abrams
#30. The way you set up for a sequel is by having a successful film. The focus is on making a successful film, and making a film that travels around the world, and that people enjoy and have fun with, and that people are able to escape with.
Peter Berg
#32. People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.
Dan Scanlon
#33. The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#34. 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
#35. Imagination Is the 1st step to writing the sequel to your life. Dare to believe and you're sure to receive.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#36. As is the curse of Humanity. We constantly rediscover the old and sing platitudes of its newness.
J.D. Brewer
#37. I'm like the king of the low-budget sequel. People ask, 'What film are you gonna do next?' 'I don't know, but it's probably got a 3 or 4 in the title.'
Scott Adkins
#38. I was keenly aware that everybody would have loved for me to do a close sequel or a spin-off to 'Marley and Me.'
John Grogan
#39. One should never believe the words I speak.
Kenya Wright
#40. I mean, frankly, I'm not speaking as a representative of Disney or Pixar, I'm speaking as just myself as a filmmaker: I don't go into anything that often thinking about a sequel.
Andrew Stanton
#41. 'How to Train Your Dragon,' the first one, was a film I'd seen prior to being approached for the sequel. I don't often watch family animated movies, but it's one that I loved and thought was really well done: beautifully crafted storytelling.
Kit Harington
#42. I think Danny Boyle's got it in his head that we all still look too young (to do a 'Trainspotting' sequel.) But, I mean, I don't look like anyone I play, anyways, so I don't really know where that comes from. Because, you know, you change yourself for the roles. I'm actually not Scottish, either!
Jonny Lee Miller
#43. Just Another Number was meant to be unresolved because resolving it would destroy its authenticity. It's a memoir. I am unresolved as a human being. And it also leaves room for a sequel.
Maggie Young
#44. I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because Scarlett is not my kind of person. She's virtually illiterate, has no taste, never learns from her mistakes.
Alexandra Ripley
#45. Usually when you have a sequel, the character always stays the same and that's true basically of 'Rocky III,' 'IV' and 'V.' He didn't really change.
Irwin Winkler
#46. A sequel that will exist just for us
John Green
#47. You have to be very careful when you're working on a sequel, because it has to be a continuation of what you did before.
Hideo Kojima
#48. We are cannibalizing our audience by only giving them regurgitated material. Every movie is either a remake, a sequel, based on something else. Based on a former television series. Based on a successful videogame.
Dean Devlin
#49. I'm all in favor of people - myself included - going into the same territory if there's something that can be done with it. But if somebody says, 'Make a sequel to 'Heathers',' I feel like, no, someone should make a good movie that's a dark, satirical comedy that has that sensibility.
Michael Lehmann
#50. I would definitely return to 'Neverland' for a sequel if there was the chance again because we all got on so well, and I think it will be great.
Charlie Rowe
#51. All precious things, discover'd late, To those that seek them issue forth, For love in sequel works with fate, And draws the veil from hidden worth.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#52. 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
#53. 'School of Rock' was just once in a lifetime things; I want to be a doctor, actually. I'd go an do the sequel if they asked me to.
Caitlin Hale
#54. Your average person wouldn't recognize a sublime entity if it attempted to fist fuck them while waiting in line for the next Batman sequel.
Janeane Garofalo
#55. You never know in a movie if it's going to be a sequel, but right now I'm proud of what we produced.
Jeff Goldblum
#56. Well consciously what we were doing when making the film was, we really wanted to make sure it was a film about - in our mind it was never really a sequel, it was its own movie going forward and it's why the movie doesn't have a number by it.
Bryan Burk
#57. 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' is not a direct-to-video, low-budget sequel: it's a big film. And it'd be fantastic to have the opportunity to see it on the IMAX screens at the same time, and IMAX has made arrangements with us for that to happen.
Ted Sarandos
#58. 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
#59. Even when people abroad see me, I'm often asked about a 'Zone of the Enders' sequel.
Hideo Kojima
#60. LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO BE UNHAPPY ... SO LAUGH INSANELY, KISS SOFTLY, AND MAKE LOVE PASSIONATELY ...
Muffin
#61. And I'm not anti-sequel, but I just feel like there are very few ideas that are meant to be continued.
Andrew Stanton
#62. With Katrina, it's almost like the sequel that doesn't live up to the original. It's certainly a shocking event and a tragedy, but somehow as a big event it doesn't seem to carry as much weight with the public as 9/11 did.
Gilbert Gottfried
#63. It's an unusual way to write a crime novel, to have these lingering, fairly large story points, but it's something I knew I had to do if I wanted to write a sequel ... but, you know, people still have to read and enjoy this book, or it's a moot point.
Tod Goldberg
#65. Happiness is not something to be pursued, it is something met, an encounter. Most encounters, however, have a sequel; this is their promise. The encounter with happiness has no sequel. All is there instantly. Happiness is what pierces grief.
John Berger
#66. 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
#67. We had to do the same thing here. To top that sequel was quite a task. Mike had a couple of good conceptual humour and character ideas, which got me back into it.
Jay Roach
#68. It doesn't mean I'm not thinking it. I always feel a bit defeated when I have to follow up with "I love you too". It's like the sequel to a film: I Love You and I Love You Too. You know the second one's always going to be a predictable reworking of the first.
James Hannah
#69. Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the flood of the Renaissance in Western Europe. He was the child of that great movement, and marks its height as it penetrated the North with civilization.
George Edward Woodberry
#70. 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
#71. My favorite part about Mare Barrow is her almost selfish survival instinct, as well as her increasingly gray morality. Her character arc in 'Glass Sword' is a lot deeper and more emotional than before, so I'm glad I got to write this sequel and that people want to read it.
Victoria Aveyard
#72. A sequel is such a daunting thing, because you don't want to lose the magic and the charm of the first one.
Sandra Bullock
#73. CHAPTER XL A STRANGE INTERVIEW, WHICH IS A SEQUEL TO THE LAST CHAPTER
Charles Dickens
#74. The challenge in scoring a sequel is, how do you not get bored? The only way around that one is to go, "Okay, let's throw everything out that we had before and let's just see it as an autonomous movie, and let's just start again."
Hans Zimmer
#75. Dunnottar? Edward? Dear God! She hadn't merely traveled through time - she'd been dropped smack into the sequel to Braveheart!
Karen Marie Moning
#77. 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' is without a doubt the best film we are ever likely to see on the subject - unless there is a sequel, which is unlikely, because at the end, the Lincolns are on their way to the theater.
Roger Ebert
#78. If I do do a sequel, I'm going to have to know for sure that the script is better than the original. So I'm going to be very careful about that because I'm not eager to repeat myself.
Nicolas Cage
#79. We're really soaking every moment in. And, then, you know ... should the movie do as well as we all hope, we'll start thinking about a sequel to Deadpool.
Paul Wernick
#80. When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?'
Vin Diesel
#81. In 1957, a young lieutenant in the Swedish Air Force named Bjorn Nyberg decided, somewhat inexplicably, that the surest means to improve his command over the English language would be to author a sequel to the adventures of Conan.
Jon Peterson
#82. Melody." His voice was a tormented whisper on his lips.
"Yes," I said.
"If you ever need to escape, come to me."
"What?" I asked.
"Just come. I won't ... I would never hurt you."
"But - "
"You're all that matters to me.
Kenya Wright
#83. It was fantastic to be on the set again with Denzel (Washington) and Antoine (Fuqua) and then to have the situation be so different. We weren't making a sequel to Training Day. We were in the middle of the desert riding around on some horses.
Ethan Hawke
#84. I'm pretty skeptical about Hollywood and its fascination with the sequel and the franchise.
Joel Edgerton
#85. I have plans to start a sequel series to Fablehaven around 2016. Beyonders
Brandon Mull
#86. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been offered a role in a sequel to 'The Terminator.' In this one he travels back in time and kills the person who suggested he run for governor.
Conan O'Brien
#87. I wanted to play a good guy after doing this lunatic on The Sopranos for two years. And then they did the sequel to Bad Boys, where I get to play the barking captain again.
Joe Pantoliano
#88. When a movie becomes very successful, it's automatic that people will start thinking a sequel, a prequel, a quel-quel.
Michelle Yeoh
#89. For me, as an actor, the most challenging thing is creating the character in the beginning because you have to write their backstory. The easy part about doing a sequel is that you've done the film, so you already know their backstory.
Thomas Ian Nicholas
#90. As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.
John Goodman
#91. Every beginning, after all, is nothing but a sequel, and the book of events is always open in the middle.
Wislawa Szymborska
#92. Every time you said it, you really said it. It wasn't like a sequel where Hollywood just lines up the same actors and hopes it works again. It was like a remake with a new director and crew trying something else and starting from scratch.
Daniel Handler
#93. If I had done a sequel to 'Day of the Tentacle,' there probably wouldn't have been a 'Full Throttle.' If I did a 'Full Throttle' sequel, there wouldn't have been a 'Grim Fandango.' It's important to make new stuff up.
Tim Schafer
#94. There's nothing worse than the sequel that's a letdown from the first movie.
Paul Feig
#95. The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to 'Jurassic Park' or I make another Indiana Jones movie. I know I've got a good shot at getting an audience on opening night. Everything else that is striking out into new territory is a crap shoot.
Steven Spielberg
#96. When you're writing for a sequel and there's a movie that's been deemed sacred ground by the fanbase that's the predecessor, you cannot do anything to tread on that, so it's a bit trickier than just being able to sit down and write something.
Troy Duffy
#97. 'Shantaram' is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the first to be written. The third book is a sequel to 'Shantaram,' the first a prequel.
Gregory David Roberts
#98. his eyes SENSITIVE when he passes advice to me, like I'm his SEQUEL, like we're all a SERIAL caught on Iranian satellite TV. When you tell someone of, he calls it SERVICING. When I stand on his feet, I call it SHADOWING.
Solmaz Sharif
#99. I think it's very hard to talk about these characters in a closed-ended, sort of non-sequel way, especially characters like The Flash and Green Lantern, which have such rich, long histories.
Marc Guggenheim
#100. Storytelling wise, you've gotta take it as far as you can possibly take it with each individual movie. If you're holding out something for a sequel or some cliff-hanger, that's not how I think of a satisfying story.
Rian Johnson
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