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If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it. ↗

— Ben Harper

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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

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Actually, it was first a movie called Gale Force, which was a hurricane movie. That script never came together, and then the same deal was replaced with Cliffhanger. ↗

— Renny Harlin

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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. ↗

— Renny Harlin

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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. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#car #did #eventually #garage #home

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

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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

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

— Renny Harlin

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I think the reason why we were able to actually get it made was that we were so extremely naive - we had no experience at all here. We didn't even know that you were supposed to have an agent. We didn't even have a lawyer. We didn't know one soul. ↗

— 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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