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We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism.

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.

Large like the Beatles, ask all my peoples, never make movies, so don't talk sequels.

I like doing sequels. Basically, I think it's a fun thing to follow characters in time. In real time.

You have to be very careful when you're working on a sequel, because it has to be a continuation of what you did before.

But, George and Steven asked me to write the Indiana Jones sequels, and I didn't want to.

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

And I'm not anti-sequel, but I just feel like there are very few ideas that are meant to be continued.

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.

I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write. The happiest period of my life is when I was writing the sequels to "MASH". I was able to ridicule everyone.

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

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

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

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.

To do a sequel is so weird, you don't really think about it.

I was concerned about doing a sequel and repeating myself. That was before I read the script.

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

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

Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.

I'm not looking for sequels, but when something comes to you, and you're already a fan of that world, you have the desire to do it your way.

When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.

All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.

And one thing Hollywood does well is sequels.

I don't know if I would do sequels. I almost feel like when I'm done with them, they're going to have to find their own way.

Audiences can be leery of sequels; the studios make a hit, they see dollar signs, and they make a cheap rip-off.

I knew the President would run for reelection in 1984. Why not? Actors love sequels ... and returns.

Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.

That's the hardest thing about doing sequels - you've lost the element of surprise.

Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels.

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

I'm not contractually obligated to sequels on anything.

There's nothing worse than the sequel that's a letdown from the first movie.

Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.

You know you're getting older when they're making TV shows, sequels or plays for things that you did. It's very flattering and very humbling, indeed.

with all these tentpoles, franchises, reboots and sequels, is there still room for movies in the movie business?

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.

My goal is to write stories that are connected, but not sequels in any meaningful sense. Like Howard's Conan tales or Leiber's Fahrrd & the Great Mauser stories.

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

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.

We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.

There would be no sequel to the sadness

I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.

I've never had good fortune with sequels. Everyone says this time is going to be better. And then I've done them and they've just been not - they weren't better.

My experience is that sequels are rarely as good as the originals.

We kind of have some ideas for sequels. The movie [Sausage Party] ends in a way that implies a next chapter.

I turned down Short Circuit 2 too and I now wish I hadn't. Sequels are a lot of fun and you get to hang out with all your friends.

I have to stay interested. I can't do the same thing over and over again, which is why I don't do - I've made sequels, but it's the movies that are not sequels that I enjoy the most.

When you do films that have multiple sequels, you develop a character for a film.

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