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"We definitely have all the regulars-Hellboy, Abe Sapien and Liz Sherman back. We have two characters from the F world, which are a prince and a princess, but not coming back is John Myers. Kroenen is back in a very small sort of cameo appearance and Professor Broom, John Hurt, is not back. Evidently Kroenen took care of that. I think that one of the drags for me on the first movie was having to introduce the characters. For example, I really enjoyed Spider-Man 2 more than I did Spider-Man as a whole. And I enjoyed X-Men 2 more than I enjoyed number one because you have the drag of introducing the characters and the world and there is so much exposition that it gets in the way of the fun. I believe that you can deal more with character situations and have more fun with those things on a second movie, more so than you can on a first one. So that freedom and the banter among the characters, I think, is better. And the world is completely different. The first one was dealing with a much more urban environment and the second one is more in a mythical type of environment, more magical. So hopefully it's closer to some of the aspects of the comic book that we couldn't portray in the first one.

It's my greatest hope that we do well enough that we can do Hellboy III because that would be very unexpected and a very dramatic finish for that arch. When Mike [Mignola] wrote [this film] we thought a little bit about where we would go on three which is a little darker than the other two and hopefully we'll get there. It would be Hellboy basically fulfilling the prophecy.

[Aspiring directors] should try and relate the stories that [they] tell on a personal level. Make sure that they're important to you and that they matter. If they matter and you care for them that's all you need to do. I wish that I could be doing, for example, Hellboy for a $120 million. It would have much more scope and sizzle and size and all of that, but if the price of doing it is $60 million and that's what matters to me I recognize that aspect. You then do the movies the way that you want them with the freedom that you need. Those are the more important things."

[Via Latino Review]