Sequels Quotes - Page 6

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

  Lawrence Kasdan

  Writing, Want, Indiana

  IGN interview, www.ign.com. March 21, 2003.

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• All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction....Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the stories that were told before us and that we have come of age loving--amateurs--we proceed, seeking out the blank places in the map that our favorite writers, in their greatness and negligence, have left for us, hoping to pass on to our own readers--should we be lucky enough to find any--some of the pleasure that we ourselves have taken in the stuff that we love: to get in on the game. All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.

  Michael Chabon

  Taken, Greatness, Games

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• There would be no sequel to the sadness

  Salvador Plascencia

  Sadness, Would Be

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• Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Heart, Eye

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.453, Delphi Classics

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• I'm not big on sequels; I've done them, but I like doing little things that have their own timelessness to them, classic type things, and then you go onto something new.

  John Travolta

  Done, Littles, Classic

  "John Travolta Interview - HAIRSPRAY" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 15, 2007.

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• I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that.

  Kevin Costner

  Thinking, Want, Proud

  "Keeper of the flame" by Jonathan Freedland, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2001.

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• 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.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Fun, Wish, Short Circuit

  "Steve Guttenberg to Return in Police Academy 8 and Three Men and a Bride" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com.

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

  Jason Biggs

  Skepticism, Taxi, Trepidation

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

  Warwick Davis

  Character, Film, Multiple

  "Warwick Davis talks Leprechauns, Johnny Depp, and his desire ti 'just keep working'". Interview with Scott Neumyer, www.ifc.com. March 16.

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• When I first started you would pitch a story because without a good story, you didn't really have a film. Later, once sequels started to take off, you pitched a character because a good character could support multiple stories. and now, you pitch a world because a world can support multiple characters and multiple stories across multiple media.

  Henry Jenkins

  Character, Media, Support

  Henry Jenkins (2006). “Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide”, p.114, NYU Press

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• You know for years before the notion of sequels, actors were the franchise. John Wayne would rarely do sequels, but he kind of played the same guy with a different name in every movie. I have no problem with using actors as franchises. And that's what is fun to do.

  Joel Silver

  Fun, Years, Names

  "Interview With Exit Wounds Stars Steven Seagal, Jill Hennessy and Producer Joel Silver". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. March 15, 2001.

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• The movies I've done with Wes [Anderson] have a much different quality than some of the more broad comedies. But what is interesting is how many sequels I've done. I've worked with Ben [Stiller] a million times now, and this is yet another sequel we're doing. I guess we're lucky to be in some movies that people wanted to see again.

  Owen Wilson

  People, Interesting, Quality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.

  Denis de Rougemont

  Passion, Love Is, Inability

  Denis de Rougemont (1983). “Love in the Western World”, p.285, Princeton University Press

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• Women want to be treated as equals, not sequels.

  Kathy Lette

  Want, Treated, Women Want

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• Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment

  Henry David Thoreau

  Disappointment, Silence, Dull

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.392, Princeton University Press

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• Working with Jim Carrey is an absolute gas. I have never laughed so hard for so long. Had he been on-board for the sequel of Dumb & Dumber, I would've jumped on, with no hesitation.

  Jeff Daniels

  Long, Dumb, Boards

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• It's an unusual way to write a crime novel, to have these lingering, fairly large story points, but it's something I knew I had to do if I wanted to write a sequel...but, you know, people still have to read and enjoy this book, or it's a moot point.

  Tod Goldberg

  Book, Writing, Crime Novels

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Always drawn to the theatric, Bowie also performed in stage productions of "The Elephant Man" and just recently collaborated on "Lazarus," an off-Broadway musical that's a sequel to his 1976 role in the film "The Man Who Fell To Earth."

  David Bowie

  Men, Elephants, Musical

  Source: www.npr.org

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• North Korea threatened to launch a missile at South Korea. North Korea backed down after South Korea threatened to launch a sequel to 'Gangnam Style.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Korea, Style, Missiles

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• [The Girl in the Spider's Web] can't be anything other than a sequel, but a couple of books have been skipped, so it is different, in that sense. It's really taking a very strong central character and thinking, how do you execute this? It's quite different.

  Steven Knight

  Girl, Strong, Couple

  Source: collider.com

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• There's a certain amount of empathy you need to have, and I've also never been one to call it in. I know some roles are easier for certain people, especially when there's the sequel and a third and a fourth one.

  Kim Basinger

  People, Empathy, Needs

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• Given that most movies are bad, and that there are whole categories and sub-categories of badness - the sequel, the Madonna Movie, the Friday 13th Series, or Movies Starring John Travolta Before Pulp Fiction - it is almost impossible to choose a single film for worst movie of all time. But strangely, I do have a nomination and I believe it is actually the worst movie ever made. It is Boxing Helena. The director is David Lynch's daughter, and the film comes with the almost insane-making faults that the family connection might imply.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Friday, Daughter, Believe

  "If I'd made that, I'd change my name". www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2004.

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• I think a lot of people end up making sequels to movies just because the first one did a lot of business, and I think what people have learned is that it doesn't matter if the first one did a lot of business or that people want to go see another one just to see another one.

  Neal H. Moritz

  Thinking, People, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• Now that I understand how publishing schedules work, I can understand why many authors have the sophomore slump. A year is a long time to wait for a sequel, but it's a short, short time to WRITE a sequel.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Writing, Years, Long

  "Interview | Patrick Rothfuss – Part One". Interview with Aidan Moher, aidanmoher.com. June 8, 2007.

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• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is beyond bad. It carves out its own category of godawfulness. And, please, you don't have to remind me that the original was a colossal hit ($700 million worldwide) and the sequel will probably do just as well. I know it's popular. So is junk food, and they both poison your insides and rot your brain.

  Peter Travers

  Revenge, Brain, Junk

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