William Friedkin Quotes

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

My experience is that sequels are rarely as good as the originals.

If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away.

I am a fan of sequels even though they are inevitably awful.

There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.

Believe me, sequels are just as hard to make as original films.

Sequels to most movies are always fluff and not as good as the first.

Oh Young Frankenstein - that's right, Body Heat, Raiders Of The Lost Ark. I mean, you know, it - they just keep going on and on and on - Mission: Impossible. And, you know, I think that the writers are having so much fun now with them that, you know, half the time, you know, people are just sitting around saying - trying to think of what's a great movie to copy.

I'd never read 'Prince Caspian'. I watched it and loved that film. Everybody was talking about its lack of success; its relative success in comparison to the other film. It's a great film. It deserved to do a lot better than it did. It's very difficult to make a film that will match up to the first.

When you have films like 'Bourne' that succeed, not only does it beget sequels, but it begets people taking chances.

What came out of 'Ocean's Twelve' is actually great because you do one 'Ocean's Twelve,' and you're more known around the world than if you did 20 years in the French cinema industry.

Obviously, if people love a movie, and it has the possibility of continuation, then there is going to be a question of whether it's worth doing another one. There's also cynicism and skepticism about sequels.

I thought 'Deliverance' was a very good film. But it didn't have the success financially that 'Smokey and the Bandit' did, although that film made more money than 'Star Wars' in the first week.

Comparing 'Christmas Vacation' to 'It's A Wonderful Life' is the silliest thing. That film starred the greatest movie actor of all time, and the idea that our movie could ever be connected in some fashion to something so brilliant and beautiful always made feel like, 'That's all they had to write about?'

When a movie becomes very successful, it's automatic that people will start thinking a sequel, a prequel, a quel-quel.

I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.

Indian cinema will continue to grow, I am very sure.

I believe in good films and bad films. Box-office business and all is my husband's section. Sometimes I really get surprised when good films don't do well... Sometimes you are really shocked when an average film does very well.

For me, every film is an interesting experience.

Well, I consider myself as much as a filmmaker as a moviegoer.

I look at films every day. I study. I coach.

I don't think I can make a film without Salman. He is in 'Mr. India 2' and also in the sequels to 'No Entry' and 'Wanted.' I'm his new Sooraj Barjatya.

Everybody would like us to make 'Goodfellas' over and over and over again.

I wish that 'Yama Pasham' will be a bigger hit than 'Krishnagaadi Veera Prema Gaadha.'

I've done a lot of movies, but none of them that have blown up the way that 'Divergent' did.