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

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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

"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,

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

Experience, America, Hollywood

"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, Goal

"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."

Finance, Government, People, Result

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