Mike Flanagan Quotes

I take a firm stand against sequels. My industry brethren are a little shocked at how firmly I'm committed to not doing sequels.

I hate sequels.

And I'm not anti-sequel, but I just feel like there are very few ideas that are meant to be continued.

I don't think there will be another Ghostbusters. I think we're all too old to do it. I think we've done it a couple times and there is not that much to get out of it, to do that would be fresh in it.

I pointedly avoid doing sequels, since for the most part I find that a sequel rarely stands up to the original.

Remakes have been done forever. People talk about 'Scarface' and don't even know it was a remake.

I don't think remakes should be looked down upon.

Nobody does remakes for the sake of it. As for me, I have not hard and fast rules with respect to remakes.

I feel old films should not be remade.

At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel.

I'm not a big fan of remakes. I never wanted to do a remake.

I'm pretty skeptical about Hollywood and its fascination with the sequel and the franchise.

I don't think you can replaces great themes. But I think people do want to hear fresh arrangements of them. They don't want to hear them played the same way all the time.

I often wonder why people remake movies. Is there just a lack of imagination out there that they can't come up with an original idea?

We all know the dangers of sequels. Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place too often, and I think you've got to move beyond it, go the extra mile and have the courage not to just repeat the first one.

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.

I feel the way I always do about sequels. If there's an idea that excites me enough, and it feels like a way to do something new and fresh, then great. But I don't ever want to do a sequel just for the sake of doing a sequel.

When I wrote 'Noughts and Crosses', I was halfway through it when I realised this was very like 'Romeo and Juliet'... as long as you make it your own, and put your own spin on it, I think it's brilliant to use other great work to find your own voice.

I'm not that big a fan of sampling. But I feel like if I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it to where it's more of a reimagining of a track. The songs that I do utilize samples on, most of it you wouldn't even be able to tell what it was unless I told you.

Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.

In 'Scream 2', they have this discussion about how sequels always suck.

I'm a fan of characters wherever they come from. Truth be told, I wasn't a big comic book fan growing up. Maybe that helps me bring a fresh perspective to things because I'm not trying to match anything that's been done in the past.

Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.

One of the things that would steer me away from a franchise is that I'm playing the same character all the time and I wouldn't want to be known for that.

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.