Ron Arad Quotes

#1. You can't make everybody happy.

Avi Arad

#2. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

Michael Arad

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

Avi Arad

#4. When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.

Michael Arad

#5. There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.

Michael Arad

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

Avi Arad

#7. 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.

Avi Arad

#8. I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.

Michael Arad

#9. I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.'

Michael Arad

#10. PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a belief that they can and will make the world a better place.

Michael Arad

#11. You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

Michael Arad

#12. I had a dual role: designer and advocate.

Michael Arad

#13. I have no choice but to fight them every step of the way. I can't tell you how many other stupid ideas have been proposed over the last two years.

Michael Arad

#14. When you see the results, you forget the pain.

Avi Arad

#15. I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.

Michael Arad

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

Avi Arad

#17. I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.

Michael Arad

#18. For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.

Michael Arad

#19. 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.

Avi Arad

#20. 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.

Avi Arad

#21. I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.

Michael Arad

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

Avi Arad

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

Avi Arad

#24. 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.

Avi Arad

#25. It was really a magical moment, to see this idea that's in your head.

Michael Arad

#26. I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe it won't be as bucolic as at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but I know you will feel removed from the city.

Michael Arad

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

Avi Arad

#28. 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.

Avi Arad

#29. I built a series of supporters that had my back. I never abused that trust. You can't cry wolf. You have to solve most problems yourself.

Michael Arad

#30. No rendering can really simulate the way the light bounces off the bronze panel. From some angles, it's almost a mirror, and from others it's a matte surface.

Michael Arad

#31. How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

Michael Arad

#32. Nothing is taken care of forever.

Avi Arad

#33. 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.

Avi Arad

#34. 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.

Avi Arad

#35. 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.

Avi Arad

#36. 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.

Avi Arad

#37. 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.

Avi Arad

#38. I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.

Michael Arad

#39. 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.

Avi Arad

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

Avi Arad

#41. 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.

Avi Arad

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

Avi Arad

#43. As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is something that intrigues me very much.

Michael Arad

#44. 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.

Avi Arad