Sequels Quotes
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I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
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I don't like sequels at all. If the movie's good the first time, why bother?
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Sequels are desperate.
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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.
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Audiences can be leery of sequels; the studios make a hit, they see dollar signs, and they make a cheap rip-off.
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Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels.
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Sequels face the risk of being constantly compared to the first film.
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My experience is that sequels are rarely as good as the originals.
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Sequels to most movies are always fluff and not as good as the first.
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You know you're getting older when they're making TV shows, sequels or plays for things that you did. It's very flattering and very humbling, indeed.
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To do a sequel is so weird, you don't really think about it.
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A sequel is such a daunting thing, because you don't want to lose the magic and the charm of the first one.
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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.
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My goal is to write stories that are connected, but not sequels in any meaningful sense. Like Howard's Conan tales or Leiber's Fahrrd & the Great Mauser stories.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have to stay interested. I can't do the same thing over and over again, which is why I don't do - I've made sequels, but it's the movies that are not sequels that I enjoy the most.
