Quotes About Sequels

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

Sequels are desperate.

Whenever I talk about how good season two of 'The Comeback' is, people ask, 'Do I have to see season one?' And I say, 'You get to see season one.'

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.

Most sequels are generally disappointments.

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I'm filming the next two installments of the 'Fifty Shades' movies back-to-back.

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

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

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

I think you kind of need to acknowledge that the reason why sequels do well is because people that loved the first one come back.

You do sequels because they are tent poles. They open well, and they hold the tent up. But in between, you make a movie you respect.

Great success breeds a lot of things, including sequels.

As you have two more huge characters as Cable and Domino, 'Deadpool' is growing, and it's making 'X-Force' franchise bigger and bigger.

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

I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those.

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. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.

I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away. That's why I tend to work with the same people; I really befriend them.

The best sequels throughout time keep what you really like about the first thing, but they aren't afraid to do their own thing for the next season and kind of grow, in a way.

I think repetition is the hardest thing to avoid with sequels, because you've told a story and now you're adding more story to the story.

Since the publicity campaigns for these blockbusters have proven effective in the popcorn economy, studios recycle their elements into endless sequels, such as those for Spider-Man, Pirates of the Caribbean, Shrek, and Mission Impossible, which then become the studios' franchises on which they earn almost all their profits.

The first Halloween was very well made. The second one was also well made, though I didn't like it as well as the first one. The third one had nothing to do with the series at all and perhaps shouldn't have been made at all.

The first Matrix genius, the second one, what's up with the dancing? I haven't even seen the third one.

Your book is smart and beautiful. I want to have its sequels.