The top 10 most inspiring quotes by Steve McQueen
- I’m about challenging people. Like, properly challenging them and their assumptions.
- I learned that life is a long and difficult road, but you have to keep going, or you’ll fall by the wayside.
- I’m a filmmaker, so I always think: When is the breaking point? Sometimes you’ve got to go beyond the breaking point, and then you catch it. When is long enough? It’s one of those things you have to look at, walk away, and go home and find out what it is.
- I’m the kind of person who likes to create the environment and mindset – not because I do it deliberately, but because that’s how I like to live – where, from catering to makeup to hair to wardrobe, electricians, camera department lighting, sound, you know, it’s our movie; we’re together, and we have that camaraderie and that closeness.
- Politics will take care of itself. I’m interested in people who are involved in the situations that politicians create. Politics is taken care of by politicians – they’re not filmmakers.
- I’m certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.
- Film is important; it can be more than reportage or a novel – it creates images people have never seen before, never imagined they’d see, maybe because they needed someone else to imagine them.
- My influences come from real life. I’m not interested in cinema for cinema’s sake. I’m interested in life – what one does and how one interacts.
- I love actors. That’s my bread and butter, and I got to work with some amazing ones on ’12 Years’.
- I just see myself as a guy who’s trying to make a film or, make art.
Steve McQueen is a British filmmaker, screenwriter, and artist, born on October 9, 1969, in London. He is known for his powerful and often intense films that explore complex social and political themes, particularly related to race, identity, and human suffering.
McQueen rose to prominence with his 2008 feature debut, Hunger, which depicted the 1981 Irish hunger strike led by Bobby Sands. He gained further acclaim with Shame (2011), a searing examination of sexual addiction.
McQueenās most celebrated work is 12 Years a Slave (2013), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, making him the first Black director to receive the honor. The film is a harrowing adaptation of Solomon Northup’s memoir about his experience as a free man sold into slavery.
McQueen has also worked in television, creating the critically acclaimed anthology series Small Axe (2020), which focuses on the West Indian community in London.
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