Steven Rodney McQueen quotes:

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

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 love actors. That's my bread and butter, and I got to work with some amazing ones on '12 Years'.

I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.

I'm about challenging people. Like, properly challenging them and their assumptions.

I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.

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?

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.