Renny Harlin Quotes

It's rare that a character film is easy to fund.

Every film is hard to fund.

It's just hard to get an independent film made.

It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.

Quite honestly, it's too tough to get your movies made and then also to get out there and sell them.

Shooting films in Britain is always difficult, because we've never got enough money to make them.

We need to work out who is paying for film; in the U.K., it is increasingly difficult to get production funds - and pre-sales demand more and more shot/cut material.

If you really spend time with movies, it's three years of your life from beginning to end. I started out planting the seed with 'Monster's Ball' about independent cinema and raising money and that whole thing as a producer, and then it becomes easier for me.

It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.

It's great to make strong, powerful films, but in terms of people wanting to finance them, it's also very difficult.

Having gotten TV shows on the air, that's so much less work that trying to get the 'Veronica Mars' movie made.

It's nice when you're working in Hollywood and there's a movie you'd like to see that no one is making anymore. You make it yourself.

There are two types of films - one made by the big-time producers, the other is low budget stuff made by some producers who make films for the heck of it, they complete their films for small amounts, sell it at low costs with almost no publicity.

It's never easy getting an independent film made and distributed - even when it's easy.

Usually, I make such small-budget films that I can't afford to buy weather.

The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds.

As long as there's really good actors that use their clout to support fringe films, whatever genre it is, they'll still get made.

The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.

I had originally done a production called 'The Resistance.' It was one of those underground guerilla things, very low budget. Then Starz and Ghost House ended up picking it up and funding it, and we reshot it.

Any movie I've ever made, the minute you walk on the set they tell you who's the person to buy it from.

I've never done a studio movie, let alone worked for a network. Every one of my films has been independently financed.

Coming from the industry and maintaining contacts with producers and directors, I am very well aware that costs associated with movie production are a major factor in determining where films get made.

The financing of my films has always been international.