Of course there are always exceptions, but opinions are not to be feared.

An established property can be a blessing and a challenge. On one hand you have all those fans of the original that you can pick up with and continue on with but then you have a lot of people out there who haven't seen the first and might feel like this isn't a movie for them because of that.

It's important to listen to those around you, and ultimately you have to decide which path you're going to go down.

I'd like to have the script in a much better place from day one of shooting, rather than trying to continue to work on it while you shoot it. I think those are lessons you learn on any film.

There are a lot of limitations so you have to ultimately focus on what you think the most important storyline is.

Sometimes with these things all the pieces fall into place. I mean, we've been talking about this for years and we don't have the script now, but sometimes things fall into place very quickly, and if everything lines up it could happen.

Technology can do amazing things for us. It's something we need to keep an eye on.