Top 120 Sequel Quotes

I don’t know about doing a sequel. I think you can retroactively damage a product by adding to it.

Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the flood of the Renaissance in Western Europe. He was the child of that great movement, and marks its height as it penetrated the North with civilization.

We always talked about the sequel to ‘Clown’ being called ‘Clowns,’ like an ‘Alien’/’Aliens’ sorta thing, where you have multiple clowns. And just really make it, in the way that ‘Aliens’ was an action movie, do the same thing. Action-horror. That would be great.

I would never want to take on a sequel of someone else’s stuff unless I was totally reinventing it.

I think sequels are fine if there’s a story, so I think when there is a property that is worthy of a sequel, it could very well happen!

I spent a long time on my first movie, which was the sequel to a short film that I did called ‘Carne.’ And I had no money. I shot it over a period of three years, a bit like David Lynch directed ‘Eraserhead.’

I don’t have any specific plans to return to the ‘Age of the Five.’ If I do, it won’t be a sequel.

When you’re writing for a sequel and there’s a movie that’s been deemed sacred ground by the fanbase that’s the predecessor, you cannot do anything to tread on that, so it’s a bit trickier than just being able to sit down and write something.

We don’t want John Wick to retire again; we’re glad he’s back in the game. We want a sequel or a prequel. There’s a lot of fertile ground to cover.

I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel.

I wasn’t thinking of a sequel when I finished ‘Life Class.’ What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.

The futuristic city on ‘Legends Walking’s cover rejects any connection with the contemporary setting of ‘Changer.’ It was as if every effort was made to keep readers of ‘Changer’ from finding this stand-alone sequel.

There are more crime films about the corruption of power because our society has similar problems. It would be great for me as an actor to work on an ‘Inside Men’ sequel, but I hope it never gets made. Because it would mean the corruption is still there.

I wanted to play a good guy after doing this lunatic on The Sopranos for two years. And then they did the sequel to Bad Boys, where I get to play the barking captain again.

What I can’t tell is, I don’t know if there’s a subliminal resistance to the idea of a sequel to ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ anyway.

I was very fortunate that my first novel captivated the imaginations of so many readers who asked for a sequel. After that, one book led to another as I discovered other facets to my characters I wanted to investigate further.

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

I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories.

You can be precious about something like ‘Blair Witch’ and say, ‘How dare you approach it as a sequel or remake’ or whatever, but its legacy was so tarnished by ‘Book of Shadows’ that someone had to come in and do something in the spirit of the original.

There’s a sports saying, if you aren’t playing offense, you’re playing defense, so if you are coming back for a sequel not be better but you have to aim higher and bring something else back in to the mix.

If I were to write a sequel to ‘Lean In’ for men, I would call it ‘Make Room.’

Constantly, I’ve been asked to make a sequel to ‘Beckham.’ However, I thought a West End show was the proper way to go. Once we made the show, I wanted to make sure that I embraced the West End genre rather than just put the film on stage.

A sequel is such a daunting thing, because you don’t want to lose the magic and the charm of the first one.

The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to ‘Jurassic Park’ or I make another Indiana Jones movie. I know I’ve got a good shot at getting an audience on opening night. Everything else that is striking out into new territory is a crap shoot.

Whenever I bump into Rajamouli sir, I jokingly ask him about ‘Eega 2.’ As a fan of ‘Eega,’ I want the sequel.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.

There should be a sequel to ‘Sarfarosh’. It was a different film.

A sequel is going to be a pressure no matter who directs it. A sequel is only made when the original film works.

When we were shooting for ‘Jatt & Juliet 2,’ the director, Anurag Singh did not tell us that this was going to be a sequel. The only brief given to us was that, ‘go and have fun on the sets.’

Even when I was writing the script for ‘Don,’ I suspected it could lead to a sequel.

‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ is without a doubt the best film we are ever likely to see on the subject – unless there is a sequel, which is unlikely, because at the end, the Lincolns are on their way to the theater.

I saw ‘Billy Elliot’ again, and what I loved about it was the way it had become a social document, a reminder of what happened with the mining communities in the ’80s. And I thought, ‘Everyone keeps wanting me to make a sequel to ‘Beckham,’ but maybe a musical remake is the answer, embracing all this theatricality.’

‘PKP’ was a huge success, and even the sequel did well. I became very choosy after that.

‘Interstellar’ is a thematic sequel to Christopher Nolan’s last original film, ‘Inception’. It drops us into a dark future full of otherworldly landscapes and time distortions.

The first is that instead of writing a sequel, which is what most people do, this is in fact a prequel. Although we didn’t know that when we began the process.

I was working at ‘New Girl’ when I found out there was going to be a ‘Pitch’ sequel.

I pointedly avoid doing sequels, since for the most part I find that a sequel rarely stands up to the original.

I’ve had filmmakers, I even had Bono come and talk to me about having a sequel to ‘E.T.’ help with an environmental message – I listened. I can certainly understand. I mean, the great thing about Bono is that everything he does is in service to a greater cause.

I’m not one of those people who had a burning passion for ‘Peter Pan’ all my life. Although I can’t remember a time when I didn’t know the story, I didn’t carry around with me an ambition to one day write the sequel.

When a movie becomes very successful, it’s automatic that people will start thinking a sequel, a prequel, a quel-quel.

I had a feeling about directing Cocoon II: The Return. At first I wasn’t too interested because it was a sequel. Then I read the script and was excited by the relationships and its mystic quality.

I’ve often thought that we left the original ‘Phantom’ with a little bit of a cliff hanger, and I thought, ‘Well, why not to do a sequel to it’ at one point.

There’s so often – in filmmaking, you’re backed into something that already has these set parameters, whether it’s a sequel or a book that people love.

It’s always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it’s expensive.

The only reason ever to make a sequel is to spend more time with the characters that people love: to tell more of their story.

I really don’t know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because Scarlett is not my kind of person. She’s virtually illiterate, has no taste, never learns from her mistakes.

Basically, I always thought that if I had a movie that did well enough and warranted having a sequel, I would seriously entertain it because that’s a huge blessing when that happens in your career.

Everybody talks about how ‘Everybody Wants Some!!’ is the spiritual sequel to ‘Dazed and Confused,’ but there’s a real trap in trying to recreate ‘Dazed and Confused’ – that magic is it’s own thing.

I’m not the guy to ask to write a sequel.

A lot of superhero sequel movies, they resemble each other greatly.

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.

Dabangg’ symbolises entertainment, drama, good music, actions and we have tried to give doses of all of that in the sequel too.

I never wanted ‘Toy Story 3’ to feel like another sequel just grafted on. We all know that if you put 3 after your title, it typically means garbage, and we knew that going in.

A movie as specific as ‘Heathers,’ which took place in a specific time and specific place and in which many of the characters got killed off, I never thought it made sense to see a sequel.