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