Avi Arad Quotations

If you don't have your conviction you have to put your money where your mouth is.

You can have a role in a movie that was originally something minor in terms of screen time, and all of a sudden we see something and go, wow, that's cool.

You can't make everybody happy.

When you see the results, you forget the pain.

No one can be all things, as we all know.

Nothing is taken care of forever.

It makes a world of difference when you start with an amazing script.

For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them - it's the feeling of violence in the family.

We love Cyclops and as you know, we love James. It's a great team and we'll continue the team, obviously.

No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.

When you choose a villain, you need something visually exciting. And when you have someone like Jamie Foxx... you want to make sure the guy with the mask and the guy without the mask are delivering two different performances.

I love Daredevil. I thought it was enjoyable. Okay? There were critical issues with it, and that's why I wear black, some people wear red - we are entitled to our opinions.

I think well-read people - the world is open to them.

When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.

You have to believe in the arthouse, if you will - the emotion, the conflict, the who am I, which will always be an unanswered question. If you do it right, you have a smaller drama, and a great movie.

But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire.

Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.

Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology.

The skeptics said you can't put on a costume in the middle of New York - which isn't true, because everyone's in a costume here.

Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.

At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.

The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the hero. They have an effect, an emotional effect. They never become out-of-this-world, crazy villains.

Everything you see that makes you think about the comics, I think you should read into it.

Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it's a very painful job because we publish a lot of books, and there are things I see where I can punch people out. Therefore, we have some new people now, and the kids are going to read our books.

On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.

There is a director who should make 'Silver Surfer' - he is mentally committed to it. He's doing another movie now. What's most important to me about this guy, first, is that he's incredible with visuals. But he's also a spiritual guy, a Zen Buddhist. ... Galactus is a force of nature, not a being. That's all I'm saying.

were a betting man....yes, you will see Phoenix in this movie.

One of the things our movie is going to deal with is what happened in 60 years. Which world was better? Sixty years ago or now? Within, obviously, a kick-ass plot and all the stuff that you've come to expect from a superhero movie.

No character before its time. The scripts will dictate which is first, ... I cannot wait to tell Captain America's story. It's a doozy of a story.

No character before its time. The scripts will dictate which is first.

He'll be the mailman, ... It's interesting, because he looks the way it was drawn. Stan is a character ... initially he was supposed to say, 'Good morning, Mr. Richards,' and then he kept adding more words.

There is a director who should make 'Silver Surfer' he is mentally committed to it. He's doing another movie now. What's most important to me about this guy, first, is that he's incredible with visuals. But he's also a spiritual guy, a Zen Buddhist. ... Galactus is a force of nature, not a being. That's all I'm saying.

The Ant-Man is also in there, a 'Honey I Shrunk the Superhero' kind of story, ... which is a big, big, big deal. When you say '10,' some of them may be sequels.

We have a tradition of Stan Lee being in all our movies,

We are incredibly excited to be able to attract some of Hollywood's top talent to help Marvel launch the first wave of our independently produced film slate.

With a live-action movie, you have to think about the Hollywood audience and what you can do with CGI. But there's also a market out there for animation.

Without giving too much away, obviously there'll be a little bit of the origin and then we come into our real world. What makes Captain America such a compelling character is that it allows you to judge history so you see where he came from and you see what he stood for.

We are excited to launch them as consumer brands via feature film releases under our direction.

The scripts that are ready will go first. It's kind of a horse race. We will make the movies by the quality of the script and which is ready to go first.

The movies are there to support the core businesses of toys, licensing, video games and publishing. Each of these titles is meant to be a franchise.

You start with great stories, and probably the best storyboards that have ever been drawn for any movie or television show, on an ongoing basis.

a lot of design work has been done on it. The script is gigantic.

It's no secret, we took a lot of sh-- for Ang Lee's 'Hulk,' for all the wrong reasons,

Okay, as you know, I'm a lifelong fan with a very high opinion of our properties, and my assessment was that the world still doesn't understand.

I love the reviews and I love the fact that this movie is so full of heart and emotion - big action, of course - but it's all about the heart.

I cannot wait to tell Captain America's story. It's a doozy.

The film slate financing enables us to evolve our entertainment operations into film production, an area where we have experienced past success with our partners and which offers significant profit potential for our company. The characters involved are some of the most valuable in the Marvel Universe, and we are excited to launch them as consumer brands via feature film releases under our direction. We look forward to working with Brad Grey and the exceptional team he has put together at Paramount and are confident that this will be a successful venture for us both.

And everything that you ever wanted to see in The Fantastic Four - which is the family dynamics, vis a vis Victor - it's all here.