- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Never Give Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Credit Cards
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Film Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.
- Advertising Agencies
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became a real Shell Motor Oil expert, and I did this 25-minute film. It turned out really well and, as a result, they offered me more work and lots of commercials to direct.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ford Fairlane was one of those movies that was so much fun to make that it was bound not to be a big hit.
- Action Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020