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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
Any
Back
Commercial
Film
Filmmaking
Foundation
Funds
Got
Government
Institution
Me
Money
Never
Said
Screenplays
Sent
Several
Them
Too
Were
Wrote
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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
Actually
Came
Deal
First
Force
Gale
Hurricane
Movie
Never
Replaced
Same
Script
Then
Together
Which
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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
Able
Apart
Eventually
Everything
Fell
Film
Financing
Force
Make
Movie
Never
Our
Point
Were
Wild
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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
Angeles
Car
Did
Eventually
Garage
Home
Living
Los
Los Angeles
Lot
Money
Nothing
Point
Somebody
Took
Turns
Twists
Two
Were
Where
Year
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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
Action
Action Film
Actor
American
Born
Dollars
English
Eventually
Film
Finland
Little
Made
Million
Million Dollars
Over
Shot
Shown
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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
Big
Big Hit
Bound
Ford
Fun
Hit
Make
Movies
Much
So Much Fun
Those
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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
Became
Commercials
Did
Direct
Expert
Film
Lots
Me
More
Motor
Offered
Oil
Out
Real
Really
Result
Shell
Turned
Well
Work
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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
America
Been
Decided
Get
Go
Had
Hollywood
Never
Out
Somehow
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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
Able
Did
Film
Finland
Here
Keep
Like
Living
Papers
Reviews
Small
Some
Things
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I learned a lot about how to shoot and how to put together sequences.
~ Renny Harlin
About
How
Learned
Lot
Put
Shoot
Together
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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
About
Commercials
Cutting
Different
Drinks
I Tried
Kinds
Loved
Make
Products
Silly
Simple
Soft
Together
Tried
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I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland.
~ Renny Harlin
Could
Every
Finland
Loved
Movie
Movies
See
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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
Able
Actually
Agent
Even
Experience
Extremely
Get
Had
Here
I Think
Know
Lawyer
Made
Naive
No Experience
Reason
Soul
Supposed
Think
Were
Why
You
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I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films.
~ Renny Harlin
About
Films
Making
Old
Years
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I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything.
~ Renny Harlin
Advertising
Advertising Agencies
Agencies
Anything
Asked
Could
If I Could
Out
Some
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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.
~ Renny Harlin
Always
Am
Continue
Crazy
Determination
Does
Follow
Having
Healthy
Hollywood
I Am
Keep
Mind
Now
Obviously
Part
Still
System
Way
Works
You
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In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.
~ Renny Harlin
Degree
Expect
Finland
First
First Thing
Getting
Kids
The First Thing
Thing
University
You
Your
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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
Early
Feature
Feature Film
Film
Film Industry
Finland
Funds
Get
Impossible
Industry
Point
Pretty
Proved
Small
Still
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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.
~ Renny Harlin
Did
Doing
Educational
Film
First
Got
Heart
Industrial
Job
Lot
Motor
Oil
Old
Products
Professional
Put
Really
Research
Script
Shell
Very
Wrote
Years
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copy
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
Any
Because
Cancelled
Cards
Check
Credit
Credit Cards
Had
Hotel
Money
Our
Out
Places
Several
Stranded
Strange
Times
Trapped
Were
Without
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