Alex Hammond quotes

I think this is an exciting time to be a female filmmaker. Trust your instincts, work harder than anyone else and learn your craft. Know it all. This means learn how to shoot, edit, produce and direct. Get as much experience as you can and watch a lot of films.
-- Alex Hammond

#Hard Work #Mean #Thinking

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.
-- Alex Hammond

#Inspiration #Narrative #Next

People outside the documentary world don't realize how time-consuming making a documentary film is there is a lot of responsibility, and in order to make something good you need time.
-- Alex Hammond

#Responsibility #Order #People

The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous...

For the most part I have been able to meet all my goals, but I always strive for bigger goals in life so everything's not complete just yet. My first aspiration was to be known as a singer and also as an advocate for sickle cell disease. I try to be that inspiration, you know. It's not as bad as people try to make it seem. I mean, it is, but it's not. People don't have to be afraid of it; they don't have to be held down by it. Try to find triumph in the situation.

The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.

You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.