“So if you don't have money to offer to people, you must strike their imagination with something as nice as you can think of.”

— Martin Villeneuve

Martin Villeneuve. " How I made an impossible film https://www.ted.com/talks/martin_villeneuve_how_i_made_an_impossible_film/transcript," Subtitles and Transcript at ted.com, 2015

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