Renny Harlin

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

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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, 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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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

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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 decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America. ↗

— 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 learned a lot about how to shoot and how to put together sequences. ↗

— Renny Harlin

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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

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