Renny Harlin Quotes

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.

Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art-it's a fun group activity.

My earliest memories are making little Super 8 films - or watching my brother make stop-motion space spectaculars.

I made movies all the time when I was a kid.

When I was really young, I shot a lot with my Super 8.

I don't think people understand what it takes to make a movie unless they've experienced it themselves or been around it. It's a miracle every time you make a movie, and a bigger miracle if it turns out well.

I think by around the time I was about 8 or 9, the idea of filmmaking probably took hold. I made little Super 8 extravaganzas when I was a kid, the first being my own version of 'Romeo and Juliet,' and where I played all the parts except for Juliet.

My friends and I started making films when I was still in kindergarten.

I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films.

It's pretty easy to make a film in China. A few years ago I just walked into the office and let them know I wanted to make a movie called 'Red Cliff' and they were so excited. They said, 'Let's do it!' It's that simple.

A lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by saying, 'Well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you know.'

I never have written a movie, but there are some bad movies out there. I can make one. I definitely want to get into that because that's how you, at my level, would get a lead in a movie - by writing a low budget thing for myself. So I gotta get to it.

I started making Super 8-mm films when I was about six years old and just never stopped. It was always just a hobby, but it's one of the few hobbies that can actually become a career. You know what? I think it was my plan from when I was six that this is what I was going to do.

Everything went perfectly on 'In Bruges.' It was constant warfare, but I won all the battles and was really happy working with the actors and everything on the film.

I was directing as a kid in movies, and that was always my strongest interest. When I was under contract at Universal, I conned an editing room out of them and spent my money to rent a camera and shoot film and make some movies.

I started off making backyard movies. I think it began in fifth grade - I'd get the friends together and we'd make little home movies. I always wanted to make movies but I didn't know how. It was always something really fun to do.

I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.

I was writing, directing, and editing my own films as a young kid with my parents' video camera.

When I was young, with my brothers, we'd make movies all the time, and that was never scripted.

The first film I directed (Explicit Ills), I did when I was like 27 years old. I had been an actor for a certain amount of time, and then I was like, "I want to start directing."

I went to Art College and during the summer I made a movie with my brother. I got hold of a little camera, wrote a script and dragged my brother, Tony, out of bed to help me (which he did not like), so that we could shoot a film every day for six weeks. It was made for £65 and it was called Boy On A Bicycle.

Filmmaking is all about what we like to do on-screen. We have attempted that in the film. I have worked very hard to perform the character.

I would love to direct a movie, something I really like with a great cast. What a dream!

I believe my signal of maturity as a filmmaker iswhen I'll actually acknowledge the fact that the first take is usuallythe best.

I was just trying to make a nice little movie... It wasn't until I saw it all put together that I realized this was something remarkable.