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Renny Harlin

"I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America."

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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."

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"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."

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"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."

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"It is not age but experience that brings wisdom."

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"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."

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"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."

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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."

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"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."

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"I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness."

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"No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination."

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"I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past."

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"In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do."
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"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."
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"I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films."
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"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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland."
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