We just stumbled on the idea of studios because the spaces we had were big, open and large, and we were told New York City didn't have a lot of those.
It has truly brought New York to a new level of life. I don't want to say resurrected because resurrected means you were dead first and then you rose from the ashes. But work was diminishing, and the tax credit program has changed that around dramatically for the entire industry.
The public hasn't had access to this part of the waterfront in over a hundred years.
We're bringing people down to a waterfront that hasn't had accessibility in over 100 years. It'll be a 2-4/7 space for living, work and leisure.
We didn't know anything about the business. We made a lot of mistakes, but we learned a lot of things along the way.
It's a little gem of a building, and we're going to have a use for it that's appropriate.
The world has changed, sets have gotten much, much larger, the complexity of the way movies are shot is just so much more advanced. Special effects are not limited to explosions.
