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I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories.

I don't know if I would do sequels. I almost feel like when I'm done with them, they're going to have to find their own way.

I'm not big on sequels; I've done them, but I like doing little things that have their own timelessness to them, classic type things, and then you go onto something new.

I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.

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

I don't like sequels at all. If the movie's good the first time, why bother?

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.

I'm not really a sequel guy. I did 'Angels & Demons' after 'The Da Vinci Code,' because I like working with Hanks, and I felt it was a really different sort of world that we were visiting. That was, of itself, interesting.

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

Early in my career, I decided not to do sequels. I know that children enjoy them, but I valued the feeling that this was the only time I would write about these characters. I felt it gave me an added incentive to do my best by them, to tell readers everything I knew, to hold nothing back.