Renny Harlin Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”