- Worked for W.H Smith with Lee McCann and Arif Nadeem.
- Electric Faces (2015) was the last film Quick edited using the Final Cut Pro 7 editing system.
- He won his first accolade for Editing at the 2018 Dublin Independent Film Festival for his work on the short film Mountain (2018).
- His favourite films are Zulu (1964) and Drive (2011).
- Founded the Glasgow Filmmakers Alliance with actor Andrew O'Donnell.
- Co-founded Quick Off The Mark Productions with Mark D. Ferguson in October 2009. He served as the companies head of post production up until it was disbanded in 2016.
- Became a member of BAFTA Scotland in June 2012.
- Was a member of the British Labour Party from July 2011 to March 2015. He left due to the poor performance of Ed Miliband and the appointment of Jim Murphy in Scotland.
- Offered to pay the deposit fee for Andy S. McEwan to run for the Scottish Parliament in 2011 as an independent candidate for "Party Tam." However the deadline for registering was missed by 2 days.
- In 2012, he got the Scottish BAFTA New Talent Awards recognised by the IMDb database. He later got the Virgin Media Short Awards recognised in 2014.
- The Greyness of Autumn (2012) was his directorial debut.
- Considered bidding to represent the United Kingdom at The Eurovision Song Contest (2014). The bid would have seen him reprise the role of Nelson form The Greyness of Autumn (2012).
- Served as a Jury member for the 2012 Raptor Filmz Festival and the 2014 Ayr International Short Film Festival. He returned to the Raptor Filmz Festival as a jury member for the 2017 festival.
- With the exception of his own projects, he considers Electric Faces (2015) the best production he has worked on.
- He hates film that heavily use CGI.
- Studied television production at the Glasgow Metropolitan College (now City of Glasgow College) with Andy S. McEwan, Mark D. Ferguson, David J.B. Craig, Moe Abutoq, Chris Gayne, Allan McClure, Findlay Marks, Stu Russell, Blaine Thompson, Scott Kemp and Les Armstrong.
- He twice rejected the possibility of doing a prequel/sequel to The Greyness of Autumn (2012) before finally being convinced in December 2014.
- In December 2017, Quick was accepted to join the Guild of British Film and Television Editors.
- Revealed on 23 May 2018 that he is gay.
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