Martin Villeneuve
Martin Villeneuve
Martin Villeneuveis a Montreal-based screenwriter, producer, director, actor, art director and TED speaker...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth13 March 1978
CountryCanada
certain change expect family people somebody suppose
Even if somebody in your family is successful, it doesn't change anything. On the contrary, I suppose people expect more of you in certain ways.
investor
When you're facing an investor or the institutions or a distributor, it's you yourself with your own ideas and your own project.
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'Mars et Avril' is a science fiction film. It's set in Montreal some 50 years in the future. No one had done that kind of movie in Quebec before because it's expensive, it's set in the future, and it's got tons of visual effects, and it's shot on green screen.
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If people tell you it's impossible, it's an even better reason to want to do it. People have a tendency to see the problem rather than the final result. If you treat the problems as possibilities, life will start to dance with you in the most amazing ways.
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When American producers see my film, they think that I had a big budget to do it, like 23 million. But in fact I had 10 percent of that budget. I did Mars et Avril for only 2.3 million.
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All the difficulties surrounding the making of Mars et Avril actually fueled its creativity and contributed to its international success!
crazy creativity opportunity
Problems are hidden opportunities and constraints can actually boost creativity. If you have some crazy ideas in your mind, and that people tell you that it's impossible to make, well, that's an even better reason to want to do it, because people have a tendency to see the problems rather than the final result, whereas if you start to deal with problems as being your allies rather than your opponents, life will start to dance with you in the most amazing way.
fueled success
All the difficulties surrounding the making of 'Mars et Avril' actually fueled its creativity and contributed to its international success!
I made a film that was impossible to make, but I didn't know it was impossible, and that's how I was able to do it.