Top 40 Renny Quotes
#1. Renny was smarter and funnier and more original than they'd ever be, but he was thirteen. He was at the brutal age when many kids would sell all their uniqueness in their character for the right pair of shoes.
Francine Pascal
#2. You forgot your dress," Renny said, staring straight ahead while he white-knuckled the control wheel and jettisoned toward the security checkpoint.
"Never let anyone tell you," she panted, "that I don't know how to make an exit.
Melissa Landers
#3. I'm the bad guy on the rest of Jennifer Love Hewitt's 'The Client List,' I'm the bad guy in Renny Harlin's 'Hercules 3D,' and I'm a movie star - finally - on Showtime's new series 'Ray Donovan.' But most importantly, I'm about to be a daddy, so I'm expecting some 'Dark Circles' for real.
Johnathon Schaech
#4. And if they do, I hope heaven is a road trip. I hope it's
you and me and Renny and Ted with nothing but time on our hands. I hope it's, I don't know, crossing an immeasurable distance with your closest friends.
Madeleine Roux
#6. The work of Renny's bow, Anvil's teeth, Nathaniel's fists and the four swords of the others brought the fight to a quick close.
Nicole Sager
#7. I think you'll look back and regret letting go of the person you really loved." Renny reached out, covering her hand with his. "The one who was there for so long you stopped noticing his shine.
Melissa Landers
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.
Renny Harlin
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything.
Renny Harlin
#19. 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
#20. I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland.
Renny Harlin
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. When I make decisions based on other circumstances, things don't necessarily go so well. So sometimes, even if something seems commercially tempting, I've learned that if it's not what's in your heart, it's probably not what you should do.
Renny Harlin
#24. I believe the important part of directing really is finding the right people for the right roles. Sometimes you go for what's expected, and sometimes you go against type because you think that'll really bring something different to the movie.
Renny Harlin
#25. When I follow my heart, usually the results are good.
Renny Harlin
#26. I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America.
Renny Harlin
#27. When Margaret and I look back over forty years of marriage, we always remember the eight we spent home-schooling as the best years of our lives.
Renny Scott
#28. I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.
Renny Harlin
#29. You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.
Renny Harlin
#30. The people are hungry for fresh manna, not some day old bread.
Renny McLean
#31. 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
#32. I learned a lot about how to shoot and how to put together sequences.
Renny Harlin
#33. This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything.
Renny Harlin
#34. I feel like I learned very early on that your heroes are only as powerful as your villains. And I'm attracted to intelligent villains.
Renny Harlin
#35. I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films.
Renny Harlin
#36. Just live in the moment and not be afraid to try things out and make mistakes.
Renny Harlin
#37. What I learned most was how to tell a story in 15 seconds or 30 seconds or 60 seconds - to have some kind of goal of what to try to do and make it happen in that time.
Renny Harlin
#38. 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
#39. There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films.
Renny Harlin
#40. I think that villains who are just brawn, muscles and weapons are boring. So I always try to find intelligence in my villains and also a sense of humor whenever that is possible.
Renny Harlin
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