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Renny Harlin Quotes

Finnish - Director | March 15, 1959 -

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 follow the herd like somebody else might do.

Never Give Up Challenges World You

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 government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films.

Finance Government People Year See

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.

People Smoking Doing Talking Nobody

You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.

Time Experience Imagination Talent

What I learned most was how to tell a story in 15 seconds or 30 seconds or 60 seconds - to have some kind of goal of what to try to do and make it happen in that time.

Time Make It Happen Story Goal Kind

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.

Money Hotel Credit Cards Strange

My very, very first professional job was when I was 19 years old - I got a job doing an educational industrial film on Shell Motor Oil's oil products. I really put my heart into it - I wrote a script for it, I did a lot of research.

Heart Job Research Doing Oil First

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.

Small Impossible Early Point Pretty

In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.

You First Degree University Expect

I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything.

Advertising Out Anything If I Could

I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films.

Old Years Making About Films

I think the reason why we were able to actually get it made was that we were so extremely naive - we had no experience at all here. We didn't even know that you were supposed to have an agent. We didn't even have a lawyer. We didn't know one soul.

Experience Soul Lawyer Think You

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