Renny Harlin Quotes

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• 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…
• Ford Fairlane was one of those movies that was so much fun to make that it was bound not to be a big hit.
• 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…
• Eventually, in '84, we made a film for a little over a million dollars - with American actors that was shot in English - that…
• I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America.
• I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland.
• I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.
• I loved cutting together simple commercials about margarine or soft drinks - all kinds of silly products - but I tried to make the commercials…
• 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…
• 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…
• There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the…
• I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything.
• I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films.
• You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just…
• You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to…
• What I learned most was how to tell a story in 15 seconds or 30 seconds or 60 seconds - to have some kind of…
• I learned a lot about how to shoot and how to put together sequences.
• At that point, the movie was called Wild Force. Everything fell apart, eventually - our financing completely fell apart - and we were never able…
• Actually, it was first a movie called Gale Force, which was a hurricane movie. That script never came together, and then the same deal was…

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