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"I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything."
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"Advertising is legalized lying."
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"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."
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"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."
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"It is very likely that many firms spend more on advertising than, for their own best interests, they should."
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"Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry."
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"Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy."
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"Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion."
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"News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda."
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"It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media."
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"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising."
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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
"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
"I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland."
Movies
"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."
Money
"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
"In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do."
Education
"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
"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
"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
"You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do."
Criticism
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