Sequels Quotes · Page 3

When I first started you would pitch a story because without a good story, you didn't really have a film. Later, once…

— Henry Jenkins

I felt really comfortable [on The Maze Runner]. From day one, I loved the script and the story, and I thought it…

— Dylan O'Brien

Mini-Me was the pint sized clone that was the perpetuation of Dr. Evil's own legacy [in Austin Powers]. That concept earned the…

— Jay Roach

You might have been able to fool people the first time, or something, but you really can't make a successful sequel today…

— Neal H. Moritz

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

— Pete Rock

I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I…

— Madhur Bhandarkar

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

— John Updike

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

— William Katt

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

— Warwick Davis

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

— Jane Gardam

We live in a country where voting rights get gutted but Sharknado gets a sequel.

— John Fugelsang

There's a certain amount of empathy you need to have, and I've also never been one to call it in. I know…

— Kim Basinger

Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

— Andrew Motion

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

So however much time has passed since Legacy came out would also have transpired in the real world. So it will still…

— Joseph Kosinski

It's an unusual way to write a crime novel, to have these lingering, fairly large story points, but it's something I knew…

— Tod Goldberg

Possibly. I know on set, they were talking about ‘oh, a sequel’ or something. That would be way down the road, because…

— Elle Fanning

I have to stay interested. I can't do the same thing over and over again, which is why I don't do -…

— Steven Spielberg

If we do a sequel, I want to beat somebody's ass!

— Robert De Niro

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

Early in my career, I decided not to do sequels. I know that children enjoy them, but I valued the feeling that…

— Betsy Byars

We live in a culture that insists on "moving on" (even while our loyalty to and love of the franchise and the…

— Laura Mullen

If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make…

— Fede Alvarez

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

— Stephen Colbert