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

  William Katt

  Rip, Dollars, Audience

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• 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.

  Joe Pantoliano

  Boys, Years, Play

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• As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.

  John Goodman

  Guy, Monsters, Pixar

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger has been offered a role in a sequel to 'The Terminator.' In this one he travels back in time and kills the person who suggested he run for governor.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Roles, Schwarzenegger

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• Even if it's a sequel, lots of people have to give their all to make a game, but some people think the sequel process happens naturally.

  Masahiro Sakurai

  Thinking, Games, People

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

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• Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost; a sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter.

  John Burroughs

  Goodbye, Running, Sweet

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.91, Syracuse University Press

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• On playing Batman and his daughter: If I was doing the sequel to Frozen I would be a hero. My two older daughters could give a sh-t about Batman and they've now passed that affection onto my son. He's always like, 'Papa, can I watch Frozen?' And I'm like, 'No, dude, it's not on again!'.

  Ben Affleck

  Daughter, Mother, Hero

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• Possibly. I know on set, they were talking about ‘oh, a sequel’ or something. That would be way down the road, because this one we just finished. So, [I’m] not even thinking about that again. But they could be thinking about it. That would be fun.

  Elle Fanning

  Fun, Thinking, Talking

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

  JoBeth Williams

  Scripts, Concerned

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The film studios learned to our dismay but to their pleasure that if they spent $200 million making a film they could make half a billion on it. So they were not interested anymore in quality films... They can't afford to be that risky at those prices. Consequently you're getting a lot of remakes, sequels, dopey comedies full of toilet jokes...

  Woody Allen

  Quality, Half, Toilets

  "Woody Allen on Film Funding + Thoughts on Change". BBC Interview, www.youtube.com. 2011.

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

  Sylvester Stallone

  Elements, Surprise, Lost

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• Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Friendship, Obligation

  'The Lives of the English Poets' (1779-81) 'James Thomson'

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• By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.

  Barry Sonnenfeld

  Definitions, Firsts, Figure Skating

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• I feel I have to live a little longer before I write a sequel to my auto biography which covers my experiences up until October 1991.

  Holly Johnson

  Writing, Littles, Biographies

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• Why not dream your own wonderful sequels? When you have finished a book, it can go on in your mind, the characters doing just what you want them to do.

  Marguerite Henry

  Dream, Book, Character

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• 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.

  Colleen McCullough

  Writing, Chinese, Want

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• At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe.

  John M. Ford

  Writing, Different Universes, Next

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• I hate sequels. They're never as good as the first book.

  Connie Willis

  Hate, Book, Firsts

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• I was aware that I had to pay off things in a convincing emotional fashion, that I had to address the lingering plot points in some real tangible sense, and that I had to make this a self-contained novel, in case I'm run over by a bus tomorrow or in case there's no demand for anyone to ever see a sequel. (Two things that I hope don't happen, incidentally.)

  Tod Goldberg

  Running, Fashion, Real

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I thought, "why don't we be innovative and create something nobody had ever done before?" It was a huge hit and we immediately did a sequel with Chris Rock, Morgan Freeman, Tina Turner and Maya Angelou.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Rocks, Done, Innovative

  "Black Ancestry Matters on 'Finding Your Roots'". Interview with Alexandra Phanor-Faury, www.ebony.com. January 26, 2016.

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• It was fantastic to be on the set again with Denzel (Washington) and Antoine (Fuqua) and then to have the situation be so different. We weren't making a sequel to Training Day. We were in the middle of the desert riding around on some horses.

  Ethan Hawke

  Horse, Training, Riding

  "Ethan Hawke on ‘Regression’, ‘The Magnificent Seven’, and Playing a Space Pimp in ‘Valerian’". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 4, 2016.

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• We're really soaking every moment in. And, then, you know... should the movie do as well as we all hope, we'll start thinking about a sequel to Deadpool.

  Paul Wernick

  Thinking, Moments, Should

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I think that the reason you keep hearing that it's the golden age of TV is because original storytelling is happening all the time in that medium, and people are hungry for it. And I'm as guilty as anyone for being part of an industry that is capitalizing on existing stories, sequels, these things that we are seeing again and again and again.

  J. J. Abrams

  Thinking, People, Age

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I do think that at a certain point, the reboot sequel mode has to give way to original ideas and back to a place where, you know, films are, you know, a medium and the cinema is a place you go to see something that is, you know, wholly new.

  J. J. Abrams

  Thinking, Ideas, Giving

  "'Star Wars' Just Keeps Breaking Records". "All Things Considered" with Kelly McEvers, www.npr.org. January 8, 2016.

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• In my head, the 5 issues of A Spoon Too Short comprise one novel: a 100 page graphic novel sequel to Douglas' two Dirk books, taking some of the ideas he was working on before he died, and a whole bunch of new stuff from me and a little from Max Landis (who is the Executive Producer on the book as well as writing the forthcoming TV series).

  Arvind Ethan David

  Book, Writing, Issues

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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