Several Times We Were Stranded

I Decided That, Somehow, I Had To Get Out Of There And Go To Hollywood. I Had Never Been To America.

When I Make Decisions Based On Other Circumstances, Things Don't Necessarily Go So Well. So Sometimes, Even If Something Seems Commercially Tempting, I've Learned That If It's Not What's In Your Heart, It's Probably Not What You Should Do.

I Loved Cutting Together Simple Commercials About Margarine Or Soft Drinks - All Kinds Of Silly Products - But I Tried To Make The Commercials Different.

I Was Making Films When I Was About 12 Years Old - Super-8 Films.

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.