A biography for Emily Hampshirehasn’t been written yet.
“In elementary school, I think all my report cards said, 'Emily plays well alone.'”
“I want to be in a position where I get to choose what I do and make the movies I want to make, as opposed to sometimes, you have to make the one you get.”
“To get - or not to get - bangs is a question that women struggle with all their life. I consider this question to be amongst those like, 'What happens when we die? or 'Is there life on other planets?'”
“You think of She-Hulk and muscles and stuff, but the person who's behind it is just such a cool character.”
“I've been in this industry since I was 12 years old.”
“I'm just really bad at selling anything I don't actually use or like.”
“I'm a bit fashion bipolar. I either really go for it or people think I'm a homeless person.”
“I have a file - my character box - anything from magazines - a pose, a face - I go through these files and arrange a whole person out of them. Because I think what you wear, it says something. It's not necessarily you, but what you want to project.”
“Time is different in quarantine. It's such a whole other world.”
“I can't say I'm a huge sports fan, so I usually watch the game for the commercials, and I go to Super Bowl parties for the snacks.”
“If you're going to break out anywhere it would be nice to break out in your hometown.”
“I've been in the industry forever, since I was a kid. It's a very LGBTQ-plus friendly industry and all my friends are gay or gay-straight, or trans-nonbinary, everything.”
“I would love for a movie that I'm really proud of to launch my career but I wouldn't like it to be some teen kind of thing that I did for money.”
“You're always told in Canadian movies to make it look like the U.S. and people buy into the idea that that's the only way it'll work.”
“Maybe This Time' is such a self-empowering song.”
“I like a character, not a costume - the idea of putting on clothes and you become someone else.”
“There's not a lot of movies I've made that my dad can see.”
“If there was a time period I could be in, costume-wise, I'd like to be in something with corsets. Like the 1910s, that kind of thing.”