[1] After becoming a father at the age of 18,[1] Quinn trained as an actor at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in Melbourne.
[2] After graduating, he travelled overseas for sometime and worked in other countries, before returning to Melbourne and founding the Frank Theatre Company.
The event shocked and traumatised all involved with the film, especially co-writer Paul Ireland and actor Mark Leonard Winter, who were close friends with Hill.
[6] One of the main themes of the 2023 film The Rooster, written and directed by Hill's close friend Mark Leonard Winter and starring Hugo Weaving, is men's mental health, with both of the men having been affected by Hill's death and having it in mind during writing and filming.
[7] Winter became very depressed after the death of his friend, and wrote the script for The Rooster while in this state, saying afterwards "I guess what I was trying to do was to create some meaning out of what is essentially a meaningless time, when you're so lost in a cloud of chemical imbalance".
[1] His brother is Australian Labor Party politician Julian Hill,[1][3] Member of Parliament for Bruce.