I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland.

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I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films.

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I learned a lot about how to shoot and how to put together sequences.

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

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In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.

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

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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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Ford Fairlane was one of those movies that was so much fun to make that it was bound not to be a big hit.

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I loved cutting together simple commercials about margarine or soft drinks - all kinds of silly products - but I tried to make the commercials different.

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At that point, the movie was called Wild Force. Everything fell apart, eventually - our financing completely fell apart - and we were never able to make that film.

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