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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I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.
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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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'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student 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 think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do.
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I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
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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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Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me.
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I want to struggle and make films. It's not a financial thing, it's more of a who-I-am thing.
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I don't think every movie should be made in 3-D, and it should depend on whether it's one of these films that's more immersive or needs to be taken to another world. I'm interested in other formats.
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You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones.
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I get great joy from creating the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. This is why I think I might be Martha Stewart's brother from another mother.
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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.
