43 Quotes by Renny Harlin

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.

I've continued to always keep in mind having a healthy does of that in Hollywood, now that I am part of the system and obviously have to follow the way the system works - you still have to have that crazy determination.

Ford Fairlane was one of those movies that was so much fun to make that it was bound not to be a big hit.

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

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

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

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

My very, very first professional job was when I was 19 years old - I got a job doing an educational industrial film on Shell Motor Oil's oil products. I really put my heart into it - I wrote a script for it, I did a lot of research.

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.