Best Sequels Quotes

From an entertainment point of view, the Solar System has been a bust. None of the planets turns out to have any real-estate potential, and most of them are probably even useless for filming Dune sequels.

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

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

I didn’t really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer.

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?’

The reason why people don’t get called back to sequels is because they did badly in the original [movie].

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I’m not contractually obligated to sequels on anything.

All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.

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

I didn’t think one day something would happen that would bring me back to Wall Street to write what is essentially a sequel.

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

In some ways, you get to find your voice better in [a sequel] because you have to define how you’re doing it differently.

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.

If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you’ll have the opportunity to do a sequel.

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

Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.

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

That’s the hardest thing about doing sequels – you’ve lost the element of surprise.

In a couple of years I think it [sequel to What We Do] will come out as a script and we’ll shoot that. Or maybe it will just come out as some t-shirts.

To do a sequel is so weird, you don’t really think about it.

There would be no sequel to the sadness

We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.

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

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 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.

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.

I’m not much on sequels; I’m not much on remakes for the most part. I don’t really like or dislike them.

Women want to be treated as equals, not sequels.

Were I not married to the director, I’m not sure I’d know anything about the ‘Underworld’ sequel.