John Grogan Quotes

I hate sequels. They're never as good as the first book.

I always get excited when I find out there's a sequel, because all the work is kind of done.

There should be a sequel to 'Sarfarosh'. It was a different film.

Even when I was writing the script for 'Don,' I suspected it could lead to a sequel.

A lot of the time, the scripts you get to read are remakes or reboots or sequels or prequels.

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

I have no plans of doing a series of 'Raja' films.

And one thing Hollywood does well is sequels.

Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.

The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying, or hordes of readers and publishers from demanding more of what they previously enjoyed.

As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.

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?

Sequels are desperate.

I'm just the second Bodhi. I think there will be more. I have the feeling this is only the first re-imagination of 'Point Break'.

'Independence Day,' ever since we did it, there's been enormous pressure to follow it up.

I would be happy to do 'Sarfarosh 2'. The script should be as good as the first one. I don't want to destroy the goodwill of the first one.

I'm not the guy to ask to write a sequel.

It's tough to make a sequel that stands up to the original especially one that has, over the course of time, become a bit of a cult favorite.

I've always avoided sequels, unless I felt there was something fresh.

It's always scary when you're doing a sequel to a film, because you don't want to just repeat the first film in a different location like most sequels. You want to do something totally different, and something that actually expands the world of the main character.

'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' is just one of those movies that's like a page of history. You can't really go wrong. It's a prequel. It's not like number three. Which is really cool, to be the before as opposed to the after.

I'm not promising to write 'JFK 2' - but one day, I might!

When I began 'Wicked', I really thought of it entirely as a one-off, as the English say. There was no intention that there should ever be a follow up, because the subtitle was 'The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West'. She was dead and gone, as the book says, at the end.

What makes a movie now is a package, a brand, a remake or some preexisting material.

The only reason ever to make a sequel is to spend more time with the characters that people love: to tell more of their story.