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

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

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"I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films."

Old, Years

"I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything."

Advertising,

"Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year."

Money, Car, Home, Living

"You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent."

Experience, Imagination, Time, Talent

"My very, very first professional job was when I was 19 years old - I got a job doing an educational industrial film on Shell Motor Oil's oil products. I really put my heart into it - I wrote a script for it, I did a lot of research."

Heart, Film, First, Job

"I loved cutting together simple commercials about margarine or soft drinks - all kinds of silly products - but I tried to make the commercials different."

Art, Drinks, Silly

"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."

Action, Actors, American, English

"I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland."

Movies,

"It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s."

Film, Pretty

"I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America."

Experience, America, Hollywood

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