In a bonus feature attached to the 25th anniversary Blu-ray release of the first Mission: Impossible movie (via ET), Tom Cruise sits down with director Christopher McQuarrie for an interview.
But in the case of Mission: Impossible, he found a way to make sequels more creatively interesting for himself by bringing in different directors to helm each installment.
He specifically mentions fans interest in seeing a sequel to Top Gun, but says he just didn’t know where to take it.
Cruise says that he avoided doing sequels for a long time because he didn’t usually see a place for the story to go after the movie was over.