Roy Conli Quotes

We don't want John Wick to retire again; we're glad he's back in the game. We want a sequel or a prequel. There's a lot of fertile ground to cover.

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.

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.

While I always thought of making sequels to movies like 'Ghayal,' the filmmakers would almost always veto the idea.

I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.

I hope there are 10 sequels to the 'Guardians' movie!

If they want to do a 'Defenders 2,' I'm in.

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

Without a good story, a franchise won't work.

I haven't done a movie without a member of the original cast of 'Zombieland' - they've all been in every movie I've done.

I'm not a big fan of prequels to be honest.

I don't want to do sing-and-dance routine. I believe script is the king, so I would go for powerful stories.

I think 'Star Trek' has a really beautiful legacy of humor, along with the more philosophical and action parts of 'Star Trek.' And so I felt pretty honored to get to keep that legacy going.

I like to read fiction.

A good story isn't preachy; a good story is always entertaining.

I've always been a fan of movies well before I got involved in the industry. The magic that it brings and being able to, I guess, escape your troubles, escape whatever is going on in life and getting to live in this moment and in the story and live in the lives of these characters.

I have to work with the team at Blizzard and the producers on the film and convince them that, as a fan, I have a unique and hopefully entertaining way of taking people through the first contact story, which is really what sets up 'Warcraft' for everyone else.

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.

I think you can tilt too far to the side of the story where the message is just simply entertainment. So I think your goal has to be to craft in one sentence what the truth is you are trying to convey. And then you find or create a story that you wrap around that truth.

I just hope that readers and publishers continue to appreciate good writing and good storytelling in all their various forms. And I hope that people continue to read books, even though we have so many other options for entertainment.

A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain

I've said it would have to be our Empire Strikes Back for me to come back and for me to pull the whole team back together. I think we do have that idea. We do have the idea that feels big and really blows the doors off this franchise. It's hinted at promises of something for two movies now, for thirty years, so it's time to deliver on that.

In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.

Disney's really incredible on story.

What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.