Lee Unkrich Quotes

Maybe because I'm a child of the '80s, 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. Like 'Back to the Future 2.' If you haven't seen the first one, you're not going to get anything out of 'Back to the Future 2.'

And one thing Hollywood does well is sequels.

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.

I was keenly aware that everybody would have loved for me to do a close sequel or a spin-off to 'Marley and Me.'

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

We got offers to make sequels to both 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz,' and they never really interested us because we like having these endings where it seems very final but could hint at some kind of future adventure that you'll never see.

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

Whenever I bump into Rajamouli sir, I jokingly ask him about 'Eega 2.' As a fan of 'Eega,' I want the 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.

Hopefully we'll figure out how to get 'Iron Man 2' going, and I'll be involved with that. You have got to outdo what you did before. So, if the last one took two years, we would need at least that to do what we are talking about or, at least, thinking about.

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

The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one.

I'm sad I'm not in 'The Purge 2.'

We wanted to do a sequel with Jim and Jeff. They said that the word was that Jim didn't want to do any sequels. We approached him and he said he would do it, but not until next year. New Line said it was too long to wait.

I don't want to repeat myself. I don't want to shoot 10 installments of 'Infernal Affairs.'

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

'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.

The trouble with that movie is that you had to see Chinatown the day before you saw The Two Jakes.

'Baby Boy' is one of my favourite films, and Tyrese keeps telling everybody we're going to make a sequel. I mean, we have a story right now but we don't know where we're going to take it.

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.

That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.

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

I'd love to make a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' The film didn't do as well at the box office as we all hoped, but it has endured and generated a following.

I never thought about doing a sequel when I was actually writing 'The Magicians.' I only ever considered it a standalone.

I'm not into replicating old movies. But one should never say never. Tomorrow I may feel like making a part 2 of some of my movies.