We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Marvens Jean-Baptiste . We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Marvens below.
Marvens, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Before we get into specifics, let’s talk about success more generally. What do you think it takes to be successful?
I think what it takes to be successful is honestly just two things. Unwillingness to give up. And Discipline. Those two are the hardest things for any human being to achieve. Discipline is hard cause most of the time we’re training our minds and bodies to do things we don’t want to be doing. If it was fun i guess it wouldn’t be called discipline. On top of discipline there’s plenty of tangible and non tangible obstacles that come your way. If you succeed 10 times. You probably failed 100. A lot of people take each failure to heart and that sometimes keeps them from progressing or just going on. But i believe that in this one life that we have. It’s better to risk it all for yourself then sitting behind some desk risking it all for someone you’ve never met.
Marvens, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
I think what i provide that most people can’t is various creative perspectives. I’m a filmmaker. And what got me into this field was books ,then cartoons, then anime, then movies. It was an evolution of fascination that ended with me here now with a mind full of stories to tell. Reading and watching all those things made me analyze each creation much deeper and not just figure out what each creator is trying to say. But also why? Why take the time to say this through your art? It made me wonder what i want to say through my art. What kind of stories do i want to tell? What do i want to tell the people who read or watch what i create. I realize that i want to take people somewhere where imagination, emotion, and practicality meet harmoniously. Where a a tragedy has humour in all the right places, and a comedy has serious tones spread perfectly throughout. I want to make it a point to have all my stories be well balanced and well told with no room for plotholes and things of that nature.
How’d you build such a strong reputation within your market?
I think uniqueness with my stories. I think all who read them find something interesting about it in terms of plot, characters, and overall tone of the story. I’m known to have stories that add an element of the supernatural while not delving too much away from our world.
Can you open up about how you funded your business?
I saved my money. I did a lot of flying to be able to save enough money to invest in my first short film.
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