Steven Rodney McQueen
Steven Rodney McQueen
interested life
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.
interested involved people politics situations taken
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.
interested
I don't do storyboarding, ever; I'm not interested in that.
amazing bread love work
I love actors. That's my bread and butter, and I got to work with some amazing ones on '12 Years'.
creates images imagined maybe needed people
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.
assumed audiences fascinates life people saw
Audiences make their minds up about people they see on screen, just like they do in real life. That's what fascinates me in film. You see a character and have to think: is this person different to what I assumed he was when I first saw him?
fall learned life
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 about challenging people. Like, properly challenging them and their assumptions.
breaking catch home
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.
camera catering create department environment hair likes makeup mindset
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.
certainly people
I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.
art trying
I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.