60 Quotes by Avi Arad

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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