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"I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films."
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"The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor."
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"In our heads we're all about 33 years old."
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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."
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"It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned."
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"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes."
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"We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8."
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"I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary."
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"Every old poem is sacred."
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"Old foxes want no tutors."
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"What I learned most was how to tell a story in 15 seconds or 30 seconds or 60 seconds - to have some kind of goal of what to try to do and make it happen in that time."
Time
"I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland."
Movies
"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
"Actually, it was first a movie called Gale Force, which was a hurricane movie. That script never came together, and then the same deal was replaced with Cliffhanger."
Film
"Ford Fairlane was one of those movies that was so much fun to make that it was bound not to be a big hit."
Movies
"I think the reason why we were able to actually get it made was that we were so extremely naive - we had no experience at all here. We didn't even know that you were supposed to have an agent. We didn't even have a lawyer. We didn't know one soul."
Experience
"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
"I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films."
Old
"I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America."
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"I've continued to always keep in mind having a healthy does of that in Hollywood, now that I am part of the system and obviously have to follow the way the system works - you still have to have that crazy determination."
Determination
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