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All Quotes by author - Steven Rodney McQueen
" 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? "
Character
Me
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. "
Film
People
Important
" I can't work in an environment where it's a stiff hierarchy; that's not my kind of way. "
Work
Hierarchy
Kind
" I don't do storyboarding, ever; I'm not interested in that. "
Ever
Not Interested
Interested
" I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art. "
Myself
Trying
See
" I learned that life is a long and difficult road, but you have to keep going, or you'll fall by the wayside. "
Fall
Road
Long
" I love actors. That's my bread and butter, and I got to work with some amazing ones on '12 Years'. "
Love
Work
Years
" I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist. "
Artist
Images
Love
" I'm about challenging people. Like, properly challenging them and their assumptions. "
Assumptions
Like
Them
" 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. "
You
Home
Long
" I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me. "
Think
Always
I Am
" I'm not that interesting of a person. "
Interesting
Person
" 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. "
Makeup
Mindset
Hair
" I need to have a reason why I'm doing something. Otherwise I'm lost. "
Lost
Need
Reason
" 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. "
Real Life
Real
Life
" 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. "
Will
Take Care
Care
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