Sequels Quotes

• A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Humor, Admission

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

  J. J. Abrams

  Easier, Sells

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.

  Dean Koontz

  Writing, Ideas, Literature

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

  Joss Whedon

  Fans, Awful

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

  John Fugelsang

  Country, Rights, Voting

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• My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.

  Vin Diesel

  Writing, Feelings, Trying

  "Vin Diesel Says ‘Fast Five’ is Part of a New ‘Furious’ Trilogy" by Mike Eisenberg, screenrant.com. January 25, 2011.

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

  Jay Roach

  Thinking, Scripts, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Clearly any film company that makes a film is always going to talk about sequels particularly if they see something as being successful, which Werewolf was.

  Jenny Agutter

  Successful, Film, Werewolf

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• We wanted to do a sequel with Jim and Jeff. They said that the word was that Jim didn't want to do any sequels. We approached him and he said he would do it, but not until next year. New Line said it was too long to wait.

  Bobby Farrelly

  Years, Long, Waiting

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• I think Hollywood is in love with sequels. If it's successful once, just jazz it up and shoot it out there again. I think it's unfortunate.

  Paul Newman

  Successful, Thinking, Hollywood

  Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. June 9, 2006.

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• The trick with sequels is, you have to give people what they liked before, yet be innovative enough so they don't feel like they're seeing the same movie.

  Harold Ramis

  People, Giving, Enough

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• That's kind of my ideal sequel - a movie that continues the story, takes one character and moves on, and moves forward with that character that survived with the first one.

  Fede Alvarez

  Moving, Character, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• There's a real danger in doing a sequel. There are some benefits, but that all hinges on how well you execute. Quite frankly, most sequels don't execute well

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Real, Benefits, Danger

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• I mean, frankly, I'm not speaking as a representative of Disney or Pixar, I'm speaking as just myself as a filmmaker: I don't go into anything that often thinking about a sequel.

  Andrew Stanton

  Mean, Thinking, Pixar

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• I think that building any product that has a lot of user loyalty is a bit like making a sequel to a great movie or video game - people generally want 'more of the same thing, except better and different.

  Yishan Wong

  Loyalty, Thinking, Games

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• He is the straight to video sequel to your summer hit movie. He is the verse to that song on the radio you have to hum cause you can’t remember the words. You couldn’t break this kid’s heart, he is so far beyond that. This is the kind of kid who blew out the candles on hope all alone for too many birthdays to remember. And no one has ever fallen in love with anyone with a smile that’s dripping with “please die”.

  Pete Wentz

  Summer, Song, Heart

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

  Stephen Colbert

  Summer, Ideas, Right Now

  Twitter post from Jun 27, 2012

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• Akmon squealed with delight. “I knew you were as smart as Hercules! I will call you Black Bottom, the Sequel!

  Rick Riordan

  Smart, Black, Delight

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus Book 4)”, p.76, Penguin UK

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

  Neal H. Moritz

  Successful, People, Might

  Source: collider.com

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• On the sequel, you've lost the element of surprise. Usually, on the first one you may not go very, very deep into character; the second one you start to explore the character a bit more.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Character, Elements, May

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• Our children are our sequels. Our parents are our prequels. All living beings are our equals.

  Ashok K. Banker

  Children, Parent, Our Children

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• Taken as a whole, the Chinese revolutionary movement led by the Communist Party embraces the two stages, i.e., the democratic and the socialist revolutions, which are two essentially different revolutionary processes, and the second process can be carried through only after the first has been completed. The democratic revolution is the necessary preparation for the socialist revolution, and the socialist revolution is the inevitable sequel to the democratic revolution. The ultimate aim for which all communists strive is to bring about a socialist and communist society.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Taken, Two

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• Maybe because I'm a child of the 80's, but for me a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original then you don't understand the second one.

  Fede Alvarez

  Children, Stories, Sometimes

  Source: collider.com

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• Well consciously what we were doing when making the film was, we really wanted to make sure it was a film about - in our mind it was never really a sequel, it was its own movie going forward and it's why the movie doesn't have a number by it.

  Bryan Burk

  Numbers, Mind, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• A human being having a full emotional conversation with a dog is funny, innately. It's one of those things where you get in a scene and you always go for what is the best joke, and a talking dog for some reason, whatever he says, is hilarious." (about his role wiht a talking dog in the forthcoming MEN IN BLACK sequel.

  Will Smith

  Dog, Men, Emotional

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