"I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here."

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"I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here."

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"Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out."

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"There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films."

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