Avi Arad Inspirational Quotes (11)

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.