Seth Rogen knows what roles he wants to do and projects he wants to be in, and they include everything that’s not Marvel or DC Universe.

While promoting his new movie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (which was done ahead of the strike), the 41-year-old actor revealed why he stays away from those franchises.

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Seth told Polygon that his reason is all about “fear”.

“We really have a pretty specific way we work; me and Evan [Goldberg] have been writers for 20 years at this point. It’s a fear of the process, honestly. And I say that knowing nothing about the process.”

Seth adds that “there are a lot of Marvel things I love” but “it’s mostly a fear of how would we plug into the system they have in place, which seems like a very good system, and a system that serves them very well.”

“Is it a system that we would ultimately get really frustrated with?” he asks. “And what’s nice about [‘Mutant Mayhem’] is that we’re the producers of this. So we dictated the system, and we dictated the process in a lot of ways. We are creating the infrastructure and process for them, not plugging into someone else’s infrastructure and process. We’re control freaks!”

Seth previously opened up about how he discouraged an actor friend from taking a role in the Transformers franchise.