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"Eventually, in '84, we made a film for a little over a million dollars - with American actors that was shot in English - that was shown in Finland A little action film called Born American."
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"Ford Fairlane was one of those movies that was so much fun to make that it was bound not to be a big hit."

"In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do."

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