I think it's great to be a part of a franchise that is successful. Any franchise is successful because it's a continuation and people have seen it.
Guitar Hero has been so successful that a lot of people were questioning how it was possible to innovate on the most successful franchise of its kind.
When Paul Heyman came and gave me the whole idea for the character, 'The Franchise,' I remember the NFL was just starting to classify one of their players as the franchise player. So that was the whole idea, that 'The Franchise' was the franchise player for ECW.
After the first one [Twilight], people started referring to it as a franchise, but a franchise is a Burger King or a Subway. It's not a movie. The people who start to say it are generally the people who are making money off of it. They love it when something becomes a franchise. But, as an actor, I think it's scary.
I thought that the Bulls were an undermanaged, under-operated team and that it could be a very successful franchise if run properly.
As I have conveyed before, ultimately I would like to lead a team's basketball operation and be a part of a successful franchise.
The insurance of working with a big, already successful franchise just gives you the chance to do other things on a more personal level.
I think what kind of destroyed the franchise, in some ways, was ego and vanity. When that element of ego and vanity that's sitting there in the franchise right now gets pushed aside, I think the whole thing could be re-tooled. I think it's the type of franchise that has years in it, and has lots of legs.
When you inherit a franchise that won one playoff game in the last 10 years, you've inherited a troubled franchise.
JPMorgan is a very good franchise. And the way you should look at a franchise, a business, is from the standpoint of the customers.
We all know that Ray Kroc founded the McDonald's franchise back in the 1950s, and it then became the most successful business enterprise in history.
I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like Bourne.
I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like 'Bourne.'
After the first one [Twilight Saga movie], as soon as people start referring to something as a franchise. A franchise is a Burger King or a Subway. It's not a movie. The people who start to say it are generally the people who are making money off of it. That's how they refer to it. They love it when something has become a franchise. But, as an actor, I think it's scary.
Spirituality points, always, beyond: beyond the ordinary, beyond possession, beyond the narrow confines of the self, and - above all - beyond expectations. Because "the spiritual" is beyond our control, it is never exactly what we expect.
One of the reasons why Resident Evil is a very successful video game franchise, much more so than a lot of others that have fallen by the wayside, is that they have constantly evolved.