Spielberg later recalled that when Lucas first approached him for "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "George said if I directed the first one then I would have to direct a trilogy. He had three stories in mind. It turned out George did not have three stories in mind and we had to make up subsequent stories." Both men later attributed the film's tone, which was darker than "Raiders of the Lost Ark", to their personal moods following the breakups of their relationships. In addition, Lucas felt "it had to have been a dark film. The way "Empire Strikes Back" was the dark second act of the "Star Wars" trilogy." Spielberg had said "The danger in making a sequel is that you can never satisfy everyone. If you give people the same movie with different scenes, they say why weren't you more original?" "But if you give them the same character in another fantastic adventure, but with a different tone, you risk disappointing the other half of the audience who just wanted a carbon copy of the first film with a different girl and a different bad guy. So you win and you lose both ways."