"Marty and I have ripped off the best bits from the Infernal Affairs trilogy and put them all into The Departed — and we won awards for our creativity with that photocopier job — so we can't come up with our own good idea for a sequel. That's why there's not gonna be a The Departed II. Although for your entertainment I will just go on record and say I have exactly the right story for that sequel, in the same way that I never saw Infernal Affairs while I was writing The Departed, so how could it have been a remake? It was just a reimagining. I only read the English translation of the Chinese script, for God's sake."