“As a child, I saw this beautiful film, Dracula's Daughter, and it was with Gloria Holden and was a sequel to the original Dracula. It was all about this beautiful daughter of Dracula who was an artist in London, and she felt drinking blood was a curse. It had beautiful, sensitive scenes in it, and that film mesmerized me. It established to me what vampires werethese elegant, tragic, sensitive people. I was really just going with that feeling when writing Interview With the Vampire. I didn't do a lot of research.” PeopleWritingChildrenFeelingsBeautifulFilmArtistFeltSawsBloodSceneResearchDaughterOriginalsDrinkingLondonVampireCurseSensitiveInterviewsTragicElegantSequelsGloriaHoldenMesmerizedBeautiful Daughter Author:Anne Rice
“It's rare that the sequel to a good movie lives up to expectations. Such is the case with Die Hard 2, the somewhat-muddled but still entertaining return of Bruce Willis' John McClane. Fortunately, the original Die Hard was good enough that there's room for the second installment to be enjoyable while still not matching the pace or possessing the flair of its predecessor.” StillsHardEnoughDiesRoomsCasesReturnExpectationsOriginalsGood EnoughPaceEntertainingEnjoyablePossessingGood MovieSequelsPredecessorsMatchingFlair Author:James Berardinelli
“I think there are some people that are capable of making a sequel more special than the original. And we have seen that when the original 'Terminator' came out, then Jim Cameron outdid himself with the sequel. Then it became the highest grossing movie of the year when it came out in 1991.” PeopleThinkingYearsSpecialHighestCapableOriginalsSequelsCameron Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“My experience is that sequels are rarely as good as the originals.” OriginalsSequels Author:Sarah Dessen
“Sure, you could go out and make Jaws today. But all of the sequels to Jaws weren't good. They are all worthless. The Godfather II is the only sequel that I have ever seen that is as good as or better than the original.” TodayOriginalsWorthlessSequels Author:William Friedkin
“The reason why people don't get called back to sequels is because they did badly in the original [movie].” PeopleReasonOriginalsReason WhySequels Author:Omari Hardwick
“Maybe because I'm a child of the 80's, but for me a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original then you don't understand the second one.” IfsChildrenSometimesStoriesHavensOriginalsSequels Author:Fede Alvarez
“With Katrina, it's almost like the sequel that doesn't live up to the original. It's certainly a shocking event and a tragedy, but somehow as a big event it doesn't seem to carry as much weight with the public as 9/11 did.” BigsSeemsEventsWeightTragedyOriginalsShockingSequelsKatrinaBig Events Author:Gilbert Gottfried
“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.” PeopleThinkingReasonStoriesAgeSeeingTvsIndustryHappeningsOriginalsHearingHungryStorytellingGoldenMediumsGuiltyAgain And AgainSequelsGolden Age Author:J. J. Abrams
“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.” ThinkingKnowsWayGivingIdeasFilmCertainOriginalsMediumsCinemaSequelsOriginal IdeasPlaces You Go Author:J. J. Abrams
“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.” KnowsWellsBrainMillionsPleaseOriginalsRevengeFallenPoisonCategoriesJunkSequelsColossalJunk Food Author:Peter Travers
“I felt really comfortable [on The Maze Runner]. From day one, I loved the script and the story, and I thought it could be something really cool and interesting and original, in this generation of regurgitated projects and sequels and stuff, so I'm proud to be part of it.” StoriesFeltStuffInterestingGenerationsProudComfortableProjectsOriginalsScriptsRunnersReally CoolSequelsThis GenerationMazesMaze Runner Author:Dylan O'Brien
“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.” IfsWritingIdeasReasonLiteratureFeltEqualOriginalsDiminishSequels Author:Dean Koontz
“If I do do a sequel, I'm going to have to know for sure that the script is better than the original. So I'm going to be very careful about that because I'm not eager to repeat myself.” IfsKnowsOriginalsScriptsCarefulRepeatsSequels Author:Nicolas Cage
“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.” ShouldMadeRealLeftOriginalsMeetingsInsaneIgnoredHalloweenSuggestionsSequels Author:Donald Pleasence
“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?” MadeArtistSecretClaimsOriginalsEnthusiasmMaking MoneySequels Author:Don Bluth