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Renny Harlin Quotes

Finnish - Director | March 15, 1959 -

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

Loved Movies See Finland Movie

I loved cutting together simple commercials about margarine or soft drinks - all kinds of silly products - but I tried to make the commercials different.

Together Simple Loved Silly Products

I learned a lot about how to shoot and how to put together sequences.

Together Shoot How Learned About

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

Small Living Things Keep Here Film

I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America.

America Go Hollywood Never Out Get

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.

Work Me Result Oil More Expert

I've continued to always keep in mind having a healthy does of that in Hollywood, now that I am part of the system and obviously have to follow the way the system works - you still have to have that crazy determination.

Determination I Am Mind Crazy You

Ford Fairlane was one of those movies that was so much fun to make that it was bound not to be a big hit.

Fun Movies Big Hit So Much Fun Much

Eventually, in '84, we made a film for a little over a million dollars - with American actors that was shot in English - that was shown in Finland A little action film called Born American.

Action American Born Over Little

Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year.

Home Car Money Year Living Nothing

At that point, the movie was called Wild Force. Everything fell apart, eventually - our financing completely fell apart - and we were never able to make that film.

Never Wild Everything Point Force

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 replaced with Cliffhanger.

Together Never First Same Force

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