The Sequel Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel.

Clint Eastwood

#11. 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

#12. When they write the sequel to the Bible, that shit is definitely gonna be in there.

David Wong

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. Imagination Is the 1st step to writing the sequel to your life. Dare to believe and you're sure to receive.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#21. As is the curse of Humanity. We constantly rediscover the old and sing platitudes of its newness.

J.D. Brewer

#22. 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

#23. One should never believe the words I speak.

Kenya Wright

#24. '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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. '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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. '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

#36. 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

#37. Even when people abroad see me, I'm often asked about a 'Zone of the Enders' sequel.

Hideo Kojima

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. CHAPTER XL A STRANGE INTERVIEW, WHICH IS A SEQUEL TO THE LAST CHAPTER

Charles Dickens

#47. 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

#48. Dunnottar? Edward? Dear God! She hadn't merely traveled through time - she'd been dropped smack into the sequel to Braveheart!

Karen Marie Moning

#49. '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

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. I'm pretty skeptical about Hollywood and its fascination with the sequel and the franchise.

Joel Edgerton

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.

John Goodman

#60. Every beginning, after all, is nothing but a sequel, and the book of events is always open in the middle.

Wislawa Szymborska

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. There's nothing worse than the sequel that's a letdown from the first movie.

Paul Feig

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. '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

#67. 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

#68. 'Would I mind if someone wrote a sequel to one of my books?' I asked myself, and I decided that I wouldn't, providing that the writer was respectful, had read my book first, and wasn't drunk when doing it.

Geraldine McCaughrean

#69. I think there are some people that are capable of making a sequel more special than the original. And we have seen that when the original Terminator came out, then Jim Cameron outdid himself with the sequel. Then it became the highest grossing movie of the year when it came out in 1991.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#70. One of the difficult things of making a horror sequel in general is because the horror genre is so founded on surprise.

Ehren Kruger

#71. Still waiting for the sequel, The Little Engine That Sought Revenge: Part Deux.

Jim Gaffigan

#72. The only time you've been under me is when I've been inside of you and even then, you're never truly under me. I always remain under you.

Kenya Wright

#73. I guess it's a sequel to our story From the journey 'tween heaven and hell With half the time thinking of what might have been and half thinkin' just as well. I guess only time will tell.

Harry Chapin

#74. One hopeful sign that the filmmakers can learn and grow is that the sequel does not contain a single pie, if you know what I mean.

Roger Ebert

#75. Life is a great novel, discovering your calling is the far better sequel

Carl Henegan

#76. If there's one thing worse than a zealot, it's a hypocrite!
Merlin, from the X-Calibur sequel

R. Jackson-Lawrence

#77. The first is that instead of writing a sequel, which is what most people do, this is in fact a prequel. Although we didn't know that when we began the process.

James Collins

#78. Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#79. A movie as specific as 'Heathers,' which took place in a specific time and specific place and in which many of the characters got killed off, I never thought it made sense to see a sequel.

Michael Lehmann

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

Barry Sonnenfeld

#81. 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

#82. Once I'm done with a book, I'm done! I'm just not a sequel kind of girl. By the time I've finished a book I've read it so many times that it's time to move on.

Sarah Dessen

#83. We thought Bugles and a Tiger and its sequel, The Road Past Mandalay, plus Bhowani Junction, which was made into a movie starring Ava Gardner as a half-caste (or Chi Chi) East Indian and Stewart Granger playing an Indian Army

Daniel Hill

#84. Akmon squealed with delight. I knew you were as smart as Hercules! I will call you Black Bottom, the Sequel!

Rick Riordan

#85. CHAPTER XXXVI IS A VERY SHORT ONE, AND MAY APPEAR OF NO GREAT IMPORTANCE IN ITS PLACE. BUT IT SHOULD BE READ NOTWITHSTANDING, AS A SEQUEL TO THE LAST, AND A KEY TO ONE THAT WILL FOLLOW WHEN ITS TIME ARRIVES

Charles Dickens

#86. I was very fortunate that my first novel captivated the imaginations of so many readers who asked for a sequel. After that, one book led to another as I discovered other facets to my characters I wanted to investigate further.

Jennifer Chiaverini

#87. It's just assumed that a horror sequel is going to be bad. It's never going to be as good as the first one.

Eli Roth

#88. Yes, there is a sequel on the way!

Belle Blackburn

#89. I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was the enthusiasm to make a sequel?

Don Bluth

#90. Always drawn to the theatric, Bowie also performed in stage productions of "The Elephant Man" and just recently collaborated on "Lazarus," an off-Broadway musical that's a sequel to his 1976 role in the film "The Man Who Fell To Earth."

David Bowie

#91. You know, people really know me from 'The Best Man.' I've done five other movies since then, but it always comes back to 'The Best Man.' It was time to do the sequel.

Malcolm D. Lee

#92. There would be no sequel to the sadness

Salvador Plascencia

#93. Were I not married to the director, I'm not sure I'd know anything about the 'Underworld' sequel.

Kate Beckinsale

#94. 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

#95. Father's Day just be Mother's Day the sequel.

J. B. Smoove

#96. It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.

Jan De Bont

#97. I had a feeling about directing Cocoon II: The Return. At first I wasn't too interested because it was a sequel. Then I read the script and was excited by the relationships and its mystic quality.

Daniel Petrie

#98. I don't have any specific plans to return to the 'Age of the Five.' If I do, it won't be a sequel.

Trudi Canavan

#99. I would LOVE to be in the Star Trek sequel! Yeah! I would love to! I better write that letter to J.J.[Abrahams]

Rachel Weisz

#100. The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying, or hordes of readers and publishers from demanding more of what they previously enjoyed.

Paul Di Filippo