#film

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

#commercials #did #direct #expert #film

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

— Renny Harlin

#did #film #finland #here #i

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

— Renny Harlin

#films #i #making #old #years

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

#feature #feature film #film #film industry #finland

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

#because #deal #dreaming #films #finance

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

#anything #around #cigarettes #doing #films

Some people make a great film and then they can't follow up. ↗

— Woody Harrelson

#follow #great #make #people #some

I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing. ↗

— Ed Harris

#chose #films #i #intriguing #made

It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience. ↗

— Ed Harris

#been #book #different #experience #film

I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter. ↗