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“A human being having a full emotional conversation with a dog is funny, innately. It's one of those things where you get in a scene and you always go for what is the best joke, and a talking dog for some reason, whatever he says, is hilarious." (about his role wiht a talking dog in the forthcoming MEN IN BLACK sequel.”

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Author:Will Smith

“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.'”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“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."”

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Author:David Bowie

“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.”

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Author:Tod Goldberg

“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.)”

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Author:Tod Goldberg

“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.”

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Author:Owen Wilson

“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.”

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Author:Ethan Hawke

“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.”

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Author:Paul Wernick

“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.”

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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.”

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Author:J. J. Abrams

“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).”

“We live in a culture that insists on "moving on" (even while our loyalty to and love of the franchise and the sequel give away a larger loopiness). But I tend to dwell or obsess or meditate, and I came back to, for instance, the figure of Dickens's "Miss Havisham" with some (self) recognition if not relief.”

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Author:Laura Mullen

“I am actually working on The Neighbors sitcom. We are starting from scratch. I am also working on a comedy movie and a vampire movie. I also have the pilot for The Tommy Wiseau Show and of course The House That Drips Blood On Alex, which we are hoping to make a sequel.”

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Author:Tommy Wiseau

“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.”

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Author:Peter Travers

“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.”

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Author:Daniel Radcliffe

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

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Author:Daniel Radcliffe

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

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Author:Seth Rogen

“In a couple of years I think it [sequel to What We Do] will come out as a script and we'll shoot that. Or maybe it will just come out as some t-shirts.”

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Author:Taika Waititi

“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.”

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Author:Dylan O'Brien

“I don't like talking about sequels or spinoffs or franchise until they actually happen, until they actually work with the audience.”

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Author:James Wan

“I've always said that with a lot of the horror franchises that I've started, it's like directing a pilot. I come in, I direct the first movie and all these directors come in and direct all the sequels after me and hey have to kind of retain the look, the tone, and the characters.”

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Author:James Wan

“If we do a sequel, I want to beat somebody's ass!”

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Author:Robert De Niro

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

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Author:Lawrence Kasdan

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

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Author:Lawrence Kasdan

“[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.”

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Author:Steven Knight

“I was in such a creative groove after turning in my last book (The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year) that I decided to keep writing in the hope that I'd one day do a sequel.”

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Author:Andy Cohen

“When we did the first sequel [of the Austin Powers] , it was on coattails of the first one doing so well when it was released on video, so we really didn't know what to do with the second plot.”

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Author:Jay Roach

“Mini-Me was the pint sized clone that was the perpetuation of Dr. Evil's own legacy [in Austin Powers]. That concept earned the sequel.”

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Author:Jay Roach

“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.”

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Author:Paul S. Kemp

“The Sundering is a world spanning event that creates ripples all across the Realms. The books in the series are connected in that they take place against that backdrop, showing different aspects of it. The stories, however, are not sequels or intertwined, though there are some Easter Eggs across books.”

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Author:Paul S. Kemp

“It was a film [The Lost World], and it's a sequel at the same time. The first shot on the first day was from the sequel to the movie they hadn't made yet. But yeah, it was a pretty amazing experience running around the jungle for that.”

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Author:Eric McCormack

“I'm an audience member too, man. I hate shitty sequels.”

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Author:Chad Stahelski

“The first movie [Grown Ups], people loved it and we felt that there were so many characters and so many good comic situations that there was enough material leftover for us to do a sequel.”

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Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“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.”

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Author:Winona Ryder

“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.”

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Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“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.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“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.”

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Author:Dean Koontz

“If a character dies, you get to do a big, juicy death scene. But the flip side is you're out of the sequel, which is where the real money is.”

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Author:Denis Leary

“The thing with movies is, because you have so little time, I always feel like there are more things we could've done with the character. If we'd done a sequel to 'The Thomas Crown Affair,' what would that have been like? But for the most part, you try not to think of that, because it's just going to break your heart.”

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Author:Denis Leary

“And one thing Hollywood does well is sequels.”

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Author:Spike Lee

“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.”

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Author:David Lloyd

“A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.”

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Author:Don Marquis

“Were I not married to the director, I'm not sure I'd know anything about the 'Underworld' sequel.”

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Author:Kate Beckinsale

“I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.”

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Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“It's just assumed that a horror sequel is going to be bad. It's never going to be as good as the first one.”

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Author:Eli Roth

“'Troll 2' is one of the rare sequels where you don't have to waste time watching the first one, since the films have absolutely nothing to do with one another.”

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Author:Eli Roth

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

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Author:Sean William Scott

“The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to 'Jurassic Park' or I make another Indiana Jones movie. I know I've got a good shot at getting an audience on opening night. Everything else that is striking out into new territory is a crap shoot.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“On the sequel, you've lost the element of surprise. Usually, on the first one you may not go very, very deep into character; the second one you start to explore the character a bit more.”

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Author:Sylvester Stallone

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

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