Sequels Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• 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.

  William Friedkin

  Today, Originals, Worthless

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I think I've done a lot of movies that people would like to have seen a sequel to. But I grew up in a time when we didn't do sequels. You just did a movie because you wanted to do a movie and you wanted to tell a story. It wasn't to build a franchise.

  Kurt Russell

  Thinking, People, Stories

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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

  Kurt Russell

  Remakes, Dislike

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• 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.

  Ridley Scott

  Thinking, Ideas, Trying

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• In features, one of the goals is to have the audience walk out, fully satisfied. In today's world, it's maybe wanting a sequel.

  Michael Brandt

  Goal, Today, World

  Source: collider.com

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• The challenge in scoring a sequel is, how do you not get bored? The only way around that one is to go, "Okay, let's throw everything out that we had before and let's just see it as an autonomous movie, and let's just start again."

  Hans Zimmer

  Bored, Challenges, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I love cartoons. So when they came to me to make Ice Age and this sequel, I was so happy.

  John Leguizamo

  Ice, Cartoon, Age

  "Ice Age 2 - John Leguizamo (Sid) interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• For those people who are going to tune in strictly for the pyrotechnics, we have better and bigger explosions. That's a prerequisite of any sequel. But in terms of this, what we're really monitoring is watching the gas industry light our institutions, light our regulatory agencies, light our democracy on fire.

  Josh Fox

  Fire, Agency, Light

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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

  Omari Hardwick

  People, Reason Why, Originals

  "Exclusive: Omari Hardwick Raw (Career Evolution, Transition, Testimony Of Faith In Hollywood, ‘Kick-Ass 2,’ More)". Interview with Masha Dowell, www.indiewire.com. August 27, 2012.

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• 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.

  Malcolm D. Lee

  Men, People, Done

  "Director Malcolm D. Lee Talks The Best Man Holiday" by Nsenga Burton, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2013.

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• We are cannibalizing our audience by only giving them regurgitated material. Every movie is either a remake, a sequel, based on something else. Based on a former television series. Based on a successful videogame.

  Dean Devlin

  Successful, Giving, Television

  IGN Interview, ca.ign.com. September 18, 2006.

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• There are a lot of parallels between doing a sequel and doing low budget movies, which is they give creative parameters. As a creative person myself, I work better with parameters as opposed to anything goes.

  Jason Blum

  Giving, Creative, Anything Goes

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

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• Every sequel needs to be bigger and better.

  Jason Statham

  Needs, Bigger And Better, Bigger

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I'm not contractually obligated to sequels on anything.

  Nicolas Cage

  Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. April 26, 2007.

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• If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away.

  Fede Alvarez

  Thinking, Demand, Horror

  Source: collider.com

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

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Voice, Way

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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