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But really, for the most part - doing a prequel is great because you do have room to kind of free this character and how they got to where they are instead of being a slave to exactly what the previous actor did.

When I am making a sequel, it needs to be different from what you have already seen. Yet, it needs to maintain a certain discipline so that people still associate it with the prequel.

There are expectations with sequels, and people want them to be bigger and better than the prequel.

I grew up with 'Star Wars' and was a massive fan of the original films.

There's only a certain number of movies I'm going to get made, and it's important to me that they each be original somehow.

If you like dark movies or light movies, 'The Empire Strikes Back' is one of the great movies of all time. It's probably the greatest movie of all time. 'A New Hope' is a superb movie. It's probably the second-greatest movie of all time, but 'The Empire Strikes Back' is better.

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

It's a harder time to make original, less conventional movies. But God, we need them!

I think you kind of need to acknowledge that the reason why sequels do well is because people that loved the first one come back.

Well I think always, when you remake films, I always think the first one is most original, authentic.