I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films.
From Renny Harlin
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.
I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland.
I loved cutting together simple commercials about margarine or soft drinks - all kinds of silly products - but I tried to make the commercials different.
I learned a lot about how to shoot and how to put together sequences.
I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.
I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America.
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.
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.
Ford Fairlane was one of those movies that was so much fun to make that it was bound not to be a big hit.
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