Philippe Falardeau Quotes

I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.

It turns out that no undergrad class prepares you to start a startup - you learn most of it as you do it.

Nurturing a project from the ground floor is something I've been wanting to do.

No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a process of becoming fully shaped.

Entrepreneurship is not really building a product, it's not having an idea, it's not being in the right place at the right time. It's fundamentally company building.

In a startup, in the early days, it can be hard to explain what you do.

Whenever I start a project, I have a broad range of possibilities.

One of the myths you see in entrepreneurship is that people have this dream one night, wake up the next morning, and start building it. It's actually much more of an iterative process.

I enjoy business, being an entrepreneur on every level. I really enjoy it.

There is a common and persistent belief out there that entrepreneurship is about creativity - that it's about having a great idea. But it's not, really. Entrepreneurship isn't about creativity. It's about organization-building - which, in turn, is about people.

The pace of change for entrepreneurs is rapidly accelerating, and the cost and risk of launching a new business and getting off the ground is just amazing. The ability to gain user feedback really quickly and adapt to what your consumers want is totally different with the web as it is now. But finding a new market, helping people and taking that original idea and turning it into a business is really exciting right now.

BBC TV gets hold of an idea and beats it to death until we're all heartily sick of it. They buy people without thinking what they're going to do with them. It's the wrong way around. What they should be doing is employing really good ideas people to come up with good ideas.

Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.

Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.

You can be a great researcher, and you can think you have great ideas, but until you're forced to talk to a potential customer, you never really know.

The first thing I learned as a producer is that you have very little control over the life of a project. Anything can stall a film from financing to scheduling to casting. Things fall apart all the time. Don't waste time on something that just won't get made. Try to have as many projects going at one time as you can handle.

I've said it for four decades - work 'on' your business, not just 'in' your business!

Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.

There is, in fact, nothing easy about being an entrepreneur.

Every phase of building a company is really hard.

I really have become very interested at working with and helping entrepreneurs at the early stages of their growth.

It's important for founders to think about how they would build their company from scratch - again.

Dealing with business and trying to create never mixes for me.

My passion is creating and marketing. That's what I'm really, really good at, and that's what I find the most stimulating for my brain to work on, so that's what I really, really want to do as opposed to product creation.

You can work hard and be smart, but you need to think about when you're going to be part of a startup and build it. You only have so much energy, whether you want to admit it or not.