Top 60 Trilogy Quotes

‘Star Wars’ was, I mean, it was the first time I remember seeing three movies that all kind of went together. It was just an amazing final understanding of what a trilogy was.

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

I consider my first three films a trilogy and I was finished with discussing the topic of teenagehood and coming of age.

The time frame is summer 1961, a year after the gold medal in the National Science Fair. I always saw my ‘Coalwood’ books as a trilogy. This book finishes the story of my life in Coalwood. I think it’s the best of the three.

Though I’m happy with the response to the film, I’ve been hearing the feedback that ‘Yennai Arindhaal’ has traces of my earlier films. It was meant to be like that. Since it’s part of a trilogy, hence the reference to the other two films in the franchise.

When I finished the trilogy of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ movies, I had a gear shift and thought, ‘I need to take a moment to smell the roses.’

I think the danger with using the term ‘trilogy’ is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader’s mind.

Occasionally, I hear grumbles about everything being a series or a trilogy, but apart from the question of them maybe selling more books, I think that there’s a real problem in trying to introduce a new world or a new concept while also getting your reader to pay close attention to your characters and themes.

‘The Black Magician Trilogy’ was about a conflict between countries and was very limited and almost claustrophobic in its range of settings, while ‘The Age of the Five’ was about a conflict between continents.

As soon as I got off the plane in L.A., I heard they’d cast the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy and that it was all being shot in New Zealand! That was pretty ironic.

Even if you are lucky enough to sell a trilogy, you don’t know if you’ll ever get to write that whole trilogy. I have many friends who had very long arcs planned in multi-book series that they never got to write because the first book didn’t perform.

I probably could have toured off ‘Trilogy’ for the rest of my life. It definitely changed the culture. No one can do a trilogy again without thanking The Weeknd.

The ‘Broken Destiny’ series will be a trilogy, with each book releasing about a year apart.

Best memories – obviously, winning a title for the first time. Probably my last fight against Gray Maynard where I was able to finish him for the trilogy. Those were definitely great moments. The worst moments are the losses, for sure.

My first score for ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy, ‘The Fellowship of the Ring,’ was the beginning of my journey into the world of Tolkien, and I will always hold a special fondness for the music and the experience.

With the ‘Old Kingdom’ trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.

When I started the ‘Broken Empire’ trilogy, I thought it was a short story, and I didn’t know the beginning, middle, or end of even that.

It’s not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.

‘Speed’ and ‘Point Break’ were a lot of running and jumping, and then ‘The Matrix Trilogy’ had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.

There are two books that impressed me when I was very young. One was ‘The Adventures of Augie March’ – the idea of having something so generous, and so adventurous and improvisatory. The other was ‘The U.S.A. Trilogy,’ by John Dos Passos.

We’re in the age of the series, trilogy, boxed sets.

The first record I ever danced to in a grown-up disco was Donna Summer’s ‘A Love Trilogy’. I danced for the full 15 minutes and I thought to myself, ‘This is it, this is what it’s all about.’

I read ‘The Hobbit’ but not a single one of the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy. I had to lie about this pretty much all through high school. I still say it apologetically.

‘Borne,’ in a weird way, even though it’s a totally different universe, picks up where the ‘Southern Reach Trilogy’ leaves off, because it’s post-apocalyptic.

What Christopher Nolan and I have done with ‘Superman’ is try to bring the same naturalistic approach that we adopted for the ‘Batman’ trilogy. We always had a naturalistic approach; we want our stories to be rooted in reality, like they could happen in the same world we live in.

I’ve been a huge fan of all things paranormal my whole life. For me, it was always a question of when, not if, I was going to write a paranormal series. I dipped my toe in the genre by incorporating a mystical curse into the ‘MacCarrick Brothers Trilogy.’

I’m also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to check their problems at the door, sit down and have a good time.

I finished ‘The Hunger Games’ trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.

The beautiful thing about ‘The Strain Trilogy’ is the ability to move from gore to high fable to creeping dread to domestic drama to unbearable suspense to the uncanny and on and on. The epic journey is designed to support these swings in mood, and that complements my tastes, which are wide-ranging.

The opening novel of the ‘Bayou Trilogy’ was the first one I finished.

I had been obsessed with the Arthurian legends all my life, and I knew that that would work its way into any trilogy I wrote. I was fascinated by the Eddas, the Norse and Icelandic legends, Odin on the world tree.

The look of ‘Rebels’ is based much more on the classic ‘Star Wars’ trilogy, where the ‘The Clone Wars’ was a prequel era series.

I’ve been very fortunate with my three spec scripts – which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With ‘Sicario’, ‘Hell or High Water’ and then ‘Wind River’ – which is the third – there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.

Nobody criticizes the ‘Mighty Ducks’ trilogy and gets away with it. Nobody!

I think ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy has a very satisfying ending, and there’s not really that deep of a mythological construct.

I don’t despise ‘Don Quixote,’ but it is a book I don’t… get. I’ll have to come back it. Maybe there’ll be a gateway story that opens it up for me; that happened for me with ‘Paradise Lost’ and the ‘His Dark Materials’ trilogy.

I’ve always viewed ‘Sons of the Prophet’ as the first part of a larger trilogy – not three plays dependent on each other but three stand-alone plays connected by theme and, likely, further adventures of the Douaihy family.

A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things.

I loved ‘Star Wars’ as a kid, but I missed out on the experiences of seeing them for the first time. It was before my time, and ‘Lord of the Rings,’ that trilogy felt like something similar to what ‘Star Wars’ was for previous generations.

I started to watch ‘Play for Today’ and plays like ‘Cathy Come Home,’ and Kenneth Branagh’s ‘Billy’ trilogy in the 1980s, which took us into the world of the Belfast family. As a kid in Luton, how was I ever going to know that world otherwise?

There are two trilogies I admire: Robertson Davies’s ‘The Deptford Trilogy’ and Philip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials.’

I still feel there is a trilogy between Henry Cejudo and Demetrious, and I see that playing out in the future.

The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together a healthy, wealthy and wise trilogy and so healthy was ‘The 4-Hour Body,’ wealthy was ‘The 4-Hour Workweek’ and then wise is ‘The 4-Hour Chef.’

Spending time with Mexican-born writer and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, you’d never guess that he’s the filmmaker behind a series of movies known as the ‘Death Trilogy.’ The way he dotes on his children and talks about his wife makes it clear that he has a crackling passion for life.

I love those trilogy movies, like ‘Lord of the Rings.’

A whole new generation is looking at the videos, and going to the video shop and buying the re-release of the complete trilogy, which you can buy at a reasonable price.

When I saw the first I couldn’t believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.

I wanted to do ‘Texas Trilogy’ on stage. But it didn’t do well in New York. In fact, it did very badly there, thanks to the critics. It was said that Preston Jones, the author, died of ulcer complications, but the truth was that the critics killed him.

In crime fiction, I cut my teeth on early Robert Parker, Elmore Leonard, John D. MacDonald, and Alan Furst. I always loved the writing of Hemingway and Faulkner. Cormac McCarthy’s ‘Border Trilogy’ has been a huge influence; I think I read those novels four times.

If you make a trilogy, the whole point is to get to that third chapter, and the third chapter is what justifies what’s come before.

It is very gratifying to see the music from ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy find a new life on the concert stage as it is performed by different orchestras and choruses throughout the world.