A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
Don Marquis

And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.
Cornelia Funke

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

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

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

Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
Wislawa Szymborska

I also know that in the second movie, the sequel, Eric made some huge advances with the robot suit. That just made it even better. You put the suit on and moved your arms then the robot's arms would move in sync with yours.
John Badham

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

I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was the enthusiasm to make a sequel?
Don Bluth

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

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

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.
Daniel Petrie

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.
Alexandra Ripley

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

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

I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn't going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall.
Bruce Greenwood

I'm always the last person they go to with a sequel, because I'm the most skeptical. You know, I'm very proud of what we've done, and I don't want to screw up our series.
Sigourney Weaver

It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn't a who or a what, he's an idea. The thing is, you couldn't continue it. Now and then the idea of a sequel has been raised, in vague forms, but I think it would be a bad idea. The story's finished.
David Lloyd

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

John and I had a few meetings about what direction the sequel should take. I made some real insane suggestions. True to what you'd expect, he ignored them all and just picked up Halloween II where the original left off.
Donald Pleasence