Alex Hammond (Alex Quinn) Quotes
The biggest misconception is that I'm only a documentary filmmaker, but in fact I have made many narrative shorts. My biggest inspirations are narrative films, and that's ultimately where I see myself going next.
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I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.
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I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh. I love his music. I also love watching Bollywood films.
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I cry at films and TV and even adverts.
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Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.
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You will never see me dancing around the trees, chasing a heroine; I will never do films, no matter what the budget, for the heck of it.
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Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
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I love doing kids' films.
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All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.
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I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar.
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You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.
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Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.
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I got a lot of offers after 'Rockstar' but was totally dependent on the team managing my work, who did not want me to sign any of the films I was offered, even though I wanted to.
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I am my biggest critic. Even in films where people said they liked me, I have disliked myself.
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Basically, I love films where everything is great and life is good.
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My family don't watch a lot of what I do. Films are a bit too arty-farty for them, certainly the ones I do!
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In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.
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I have died in enough TV and films.
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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'
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There are a lot of films that come out for kids, and the parents have to suffer through it.
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I use SPF every day, then apply foundation, mascara, eyeliner and blusher. I always take my make-up off at night and moisturize.
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It is better to do too much than to do too little.
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Moore's Law is really a thing about human activity, it's about vision, it's about what you're allowed to believe. Because people are really limited by their beliefs, they limit themselves by what they allow themselves to believe about what is possible.
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The biggest misconception is that I'm only a documentary filmmaker, but in fact I have made many narrative shorts. My biggest inspirations are narrative films, and that's ultimately where I see myself going next.
