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"I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything."
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"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."
"Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy."
"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."
"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."
"You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern."
"Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion."
"Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere."
"The future of advertising is the Internet."
"That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America."
"I loved cutting together simple commercials about margarine or soft drinks - all kinds of silly products - but I tried to make the commercials different."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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