Steven Rodney McQueen Quotes


I need to have a reason why I'm doing something. Otherwise I'm lost.


Citations

McQueen, Steve. "The Human Stain." Interview by Gavin Smith. Film Comment, vol. 47, no. 6, Film at Lincoln Center, Nov. 2011, p. 23.

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Steven Rodney McQueen
Steven Rodney McQueen
  • Born: October 9, 1969
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Filmmaker, Video Artist

Sir Steven Rodney McQueen CBE is a British filmmaker and video artist. He is known for his award-winning film 12 Years a Slave (2013), an adaptation of Solomon Northup's 1853 slave narrative memoir. He also directed and co-wrote Hunger (2008), a historical drama about the 1981 Irish hunger strike, Shame (2011), a drama about an executive struggling with sex addiction, and Widows (2018), an adaptation of the British television series of the same name set in contemporary Chicago. In 2020, he released Small Axe, a collection of five films "set within London’s West Indian community from the late 1960s to the early ’80s".