#out

When my body is strong, I feel stronger inside. I feel more capable of handling emotional situations. Usually I'm more of a inside-out person, but this was a great case of me from the outside in. ↗

— Mariska Hargitay

#capable #case #emotional #feel #great

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical. ↗

— Keith Haring

#artist #becoming #boom #collecting #combined

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 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

#commercials #cutting #different #drinks #i

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

— Renny Harlin

#films #i #making #old #years

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

— Renny Harlin

#advertising agencies #agencies #anything #asked #could

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

#because #cancelled #cards #check #credit

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

I was scouted at a Cure concert. A model scout approached me there and asked me if I modeled, and I thought that was ludicrous. ↗

— Shalom Harlow

#asked #concert #cure #i #ludicrous