Renny Harlin famous quotes

03-28-2025

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

#Giving Up #Challenges #Healthy
I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films.
-- Renny Harlin

#Years #Film
I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything.
-- Renny Harlin

#Agency #Advertising #Euthanasia
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

#Dream #Years #Issues
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

#Cards #Credit #Strange
In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.
-- Renny Harlin

#Kids #Firsts #Degrees
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

#Talking #People #Smoking
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

#Silly #Cutting #Simple
I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.
-- Renny Harlin

#Paper #Able #Film
I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland.
-- Renny Harlin

#Finland
I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America.
-- Renny Harlin

#America #Hollywood
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

#Actors #Littles #Dollars
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

#Real #Oil #Shells
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

#Fun #Bigs
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

#Government #Foundation #Film
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

#Imagination #Individuality #Want
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

#Impossible #Film #Finland

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