Avi Arad Quotes

11 quotations by Avi Arad

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.