It Proved To Be Pretty Impossible To

I Went Out To Some Advertising Agencies And Asked If I Could Do Anything.

I Feel Like I Learned Very Early On That Your Heroes Are Only As Powerful As Your Villains. And I'm Attracted To Intelligent Villains.

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.

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.

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.