Renny Harlin

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

— Renny Harlin

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

— Renny Harlin

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

— Renny Harlin

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

— Renny Harlin

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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

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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

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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

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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

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