I Became A Real Shell Motor Oil

In Finland, Getting A University Degree Is The First Thing That You Expect Your Kids To Do.

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.

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

A Government Institution Called The Finnish Film Foundation Funds Filmmaking There, And I Wrote Several Screenplays But Never Got Any Money. They Were Sent Back To Me, And They Said That They Were Too Commercial For Them.

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