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

Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.

Hollywood is a wonderful machine for making big movies. In France, we make smaller and more personal films, but if things keep changing, this will disappear. The industry in Italy is practically gone. Cinecitta now is used mostly by filmmakers from others places, like Martin Scorsese.

I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.

There's a burgeoning film scene in Romania.

If you're a film studio, you're making a movie for a foreign market. You're pursuing ideas that travel well. It changes the movies we see and how movies are made.

I hope to build not the largest film and media studio in the world, but perhaps one of the coolest and also the most inclusive.

Well, Toronto, I consider to be the birthplace of my films. I've made three films and this is the third one to premiere here in the same theater on the same day at the same time - they are my audience. They're the people that I think about while I'm writing, directing, and editing. I specifically make movies for them.

This worldwide spread of recognition is insane. I was brought up in a small country. If you made a Swedish film that just got into a film festival somewhere, that was like the biggest thing you could wish for.