Tim Burton Says He's Not 'Interested' in a “Nightmare Before Christmas” Sequel: 'I Don't Want That'

'The Nightmare Before Christmas,' produced by Tim Burton and directed by Henry Selick, celebrated its 30th anniversary in October

Tim Burton wants to leave The Nightmare Before Christmas alone.

In a recent interview with Empire magazine, Burton, 65, emphasized that he has no interest in a sequel, reboot or other film connected to the 1993 stop-motion animated film that he created and produced.

“To me, the movie is very important,” Burton said. “I’ve done sequels, I’ve done other things, I’ve done reboots, I’ve done all that s---, right? I don’t want that to happen to this."

"It’s nice that people are maybe interested [in another one], but I’m not," he added, comparing himself to a man "who owns a little piece of property and won’t sell to the big power-plant that wants to take my land.”

“Get off of my land!” Burton joked. “You pesky little… You ain’t getting this property! I don’t care what you want to build on it. You come on my property… Where’s my shotgun?”

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The Nightmare Before Christmas, directed by Henry Selick from Burton's idea, celebrated its 30th anniversary in October.

The film follows Jack Skellington (Chris Sarandon, with the singing voice of Danny Elfman), the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, who grows obsessed with Christmas Town and recreating it in his home world. With help from ragdoll Sally (Catherine O'Hara), he learns the real meaning of Christmas spirit.

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While speaking with Empire, Burton said the Jack Skellington character "was a very personal character" for him at that point in his career.

“Those are the kinds of things that I love, whether it’s [Edward] Scissorhands or Batman, characters that have that," he said. "It represented all those feelings that I had. I was perceived as this dark character, when I didn’t feel that way."

When PEOPLE caught up with Nightmare Before Christmas director Selick, 70, and the film's star Sarandon, 81, to celebrate the 30th anniversary in October, Selick said it is "a perfect movie [that] came out of the perfect time, only to grow into something far bigger over the years."

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"I think Tim in particular feels like, why mess with that?" he added of a potential sequel. "He certainly doesn't need to make more money from a sequel. He has had so many other successes, and so far nobody's come up with a great idea for a sequel. And I still think that Tim gets to decide. I don't think there's any idea that would convince him."

Selick said that in his view "it might be more interesting to do a prequel." "There might be a more interesting story there about how Jack became the King of Halloweentown," he said at the time.

The Nightmare Before Christmas is currently streaming on Disney+.

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