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You want to do something that ...

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.

Renny Harlin 48 quotes

It proved to be pretty impossi...

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.

Renny Harlin 48 quotes

A government institution calle...

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 to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them.

Renny Harlin 48 quotes

Ford Fairlane was one of those...

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

Renny Harlin 48 quotes

I became a real Shell Motor Oi...

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.

Renny Harlin 48 quotes

Eventually, in '84, we made a ...

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.

Renny Harlin 48 quotes

I decided that, somehow, I had...

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

Renny Harlin 48 quotes

I loved movies and went to see...

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

Renny Harlin 48 quotes

I did some film reviews for sm...

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

Renny Harlin 48 quotes

I loved cutting together simpl...

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

Renny Harlin 48 quotes

This was in '79. I got pretty ...

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.

Renny Harlin 48 quotes

You want to do something that ...

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.

Renny Harlin 48 quotes

You just never give up, no mat...

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.

Renny Harlin 48 quotes

What I learned most was how 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 goal of what to try to do and make it happen in that time.

Renny Harlin 48 quotes

This was in '79. I got pretty ...

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.

Renny Harlin 48 quotes

There were a lot of people dre...

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

Renny Harlin 48 quotes

Several times we were stranded...

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.

Renny Harlin 48 quotes

My very, very first profession...

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.

Renny Harlin 48 quotes

It proved to be pretty impossi...

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.

Renny Harlin 48 quotes

In Finland, getting a universi...

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

Renny Harlin 48 quotes

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