Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Martin Villeneuve

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian director Martin Villeneuve.

Last updated on August 4, 2024.

Martin Villeneuve is a Canadian screenwriter, producer, director, actor, and art director. He is known for the Imelda Trilogy of short films, in which he portrays his own grandmother. He was nominated at the Canadian Screen Award in 2013 for Best Adapted Screenplay, for Mars et Avril, his feature film debut, and Quebec's first true science fiction movie. Villeneuve is the first, TED speaker to come out of Quebec. He has also worked for Cirque du Soleil as an artistic director for commercials and film.

Canadian - Director | Born: March 13, 1978

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All the difficulties surrounding the making of 'Mars et Avril' actually fueled its creativity and contributed to its international success!

Martin Villeneuve

'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.

Martin Villeneuve

When you're facing an investor or the institutions or a distributor, it's you yourself with your own ideas and your own project.

Martin Villeneuve

Problems are hidden opportunities, and constraints can actually boost creativity.

Martin Villeneuve

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.

Martin Villeneuve

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.

Martin Villeneuve

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.

Martin Villeneuve

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.

Martin Villeneuve

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.

Martin Villeneuve

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.

Martin Villeneuve

All the difficulties surrounding the making of Mars et Avril actually fueled its creativity and contributed to its international success!

Martin Villeneuve