Top 170 Sequels Quotes & Sayings

Great success breeds a lot of things, including sequels.

And one thing Hollywood does well is sequels.

Sequels are always tricky.

There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell.

I hope there are 10 sequels to the 'Guardians' movie!

I take a firm stand against sequels. My industry brethren are a little shocked at how firmly I'm committed to not doing sequels.

In 'Scream 2', they have this discussion about how sequels always suck.

Sequels are desperate.

I think sequels should be earned and we won't do it unless the script is better than the first one.

with all these tentpoles, franchises, reboots and sequels, is there still room for movies in the movie business?

After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.

I hate sequels.

Believe me, sequels are just as hard to make as original films.

But, George and Steven asked me to write the Indiana Jones sequels, and I didn't want to.

A lot of the time, the scripts you get to read are remakes or reboots or sequels or prequels.

I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.

There are so many sequels where everything between the special effects is just boring.

That's the hardest thing about doing sequels - you've lost the element of surprise.

I knew the President would run for reelection in 1984. Why not? Actors love sequels ... and returns.

Most sequels are generally disappointments.

Sequels to most movies are always fluff and not as good as the first.

People make sequels a lot in Hollywood, and sometimes it feels like there's never an original thought.

Sequels are hard.

I'm just trying to think what other sequels there were. There was the James Bond movies and not many. I think sequels have become a recent idea of franchising.

I think true connectivity is something that is rare in sequels. I mean I love the first 'Die Hard' film; you won't find a bigger 'Die Hard' fan than me. But I feel like with the sequels, they're just taking that character and dropping him in different scenarios. There's no real connective tissue.

The thing I do miss about the way some sequels were in the past was that each film felt like its own unique, complete tone. Now, sequels are tonal facsimiles of the ones before them, like a television series, whereas back in the past sequels would often be radically different from the ones before.

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

I have an allergy to sequels and remakes in general.

I'm not contractually obligated to sequels on anything.

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

My experience is that sequels are rarely as good as the originals.

I hate sequels. They're never as good as the first book.

I don't like sequels at all. If the movie's good the first time, why bother?

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

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

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

I am a fan of sequels even though they are inevitably awful.

I've always avoided sequels, unless I felt there was something fresh.

You only have to go hardcore humiliation on the first film. On the subsequent sequels, you can coast.

I'm an audience member too, man. I hate shitty sequels.

George Lazenby was ill-equipped. It's not for nothing that they didn't offer him any sequels.

A lot of people ask for sequels, but what they really want is just to know the characters are happy and safe.

I don't know if I'm a sequels kind of person. I prefer each film to have its own unique identity.

I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.

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.

You know for years before the notion of sequels, actors were the franchise. John Wayne would rarely do sequels, but he kind of played the same guy with a different name in every movie. I have no problem with using actors as franchises. And that's what is fun to do.

I always like to make sequels. It's a nice business to be in.

Sequels face the risk of being constantly compared to the first film.

In my opinion, where comedy sequels tend to go bad is that they get sillier and lighter.

All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.

Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.

I'm not looking for sequels, but when something comes to you, and you're already a fan of that world, you have the desire to do it your way.

I didn't direct any of the 'Saw' sequels, but people thought I did.

I never actually plan sequels. They demand to be done.

I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.

As we all know, sequels can be tricky.

Sequels are scary. And making a sequel to something as good as 'Scanners' is even scarier.

Women want to be treated as equals, not sequels.

There are expectations with sequels, and people want them to be bigger and better than the prequel.