Shame (2011) dir. Steve McQueen

Shame (2011) dir. Steve McQueen

Shame (2011) dir. Steve McQueen “I have no judgment on it, I’m just reflecting reality. I’m not interested in making a statement. I’m an immoral person who leans into the moral spectrum every now and then. What artists have done since the beginning of time is look at ourselves and put ourselves on canvasses or in sculptures or in the cinema.” - Steve McQueen

Shame (2011) dir. Steve McQueen

“I have no judgment on it, I’m just reflecting reality. I’m not interested in making a statement. I’m an immoral person who leans into the moral spectrum every now and then. What artists have done since the beginning of time is look at ourselves and put ourselves on canvasses or in sculptures or in the cinema.” - Steve McQueen

Shame (2011) dir. Steve McQueen On New York as the location for Shame: “So we had to find out where he would live, what job he would go to, how much salary he’d have, which led to what kind of apartment he’d have – his apartment’s kind of small. And, of course, what was interesting to me is that a lot of New Yorkers live and work in the sky. For a European that’s quite a weird thing to get your head around, and when I was making the movie, for three months I was living 24 or 25 floors up. Often there’s a huge panoramic view from these apartments, but what it actually does is it makes your own perspective on life quite lonely. It’s almost like a funnel; you’re standing at the small end and there’s a whole world out there but you’re very far away from it. It’s like a cinema screen in your house, but it isolates you.” - Steve McQueen

Shame (2011) dir. Steve McQueen

On New York as the location for Shame: “So we had to find out where he would live, what job he would go to, how much salary he’d have, which led to what kind of apartment he’d have – his apartment’s kind of small. And, of course, what was interesting to me is that a lot of New Yorkers live and work in the sky. For a European that’s quite a weird thing to get your head around, and when I was making the movie, for three months I was living 24 or 25 floors up. Often there’s a huge panoramic view from these apartments, but what it actually does is it makes your own perspective on life quite lonely. It’s almost like a funnel; you’re standing at the small end and there’s a whole world out there but you’re very far away from it. It’s like a cinema screen in your house, but it isolates you.” - Steve McQueen

Shame (2011) dir. Steve McQueen On director Steve McQueen: “He seemed to have a great empathy and interest in human beings – in how we relate to one another and how we relate to ourselves, and how we negotiate getting through life, sometimes in ordinary situations and sometimes in extraordinary situations. I knew that I would learn from him. But we really started to bond through the making of Hunger, and that was just down to working with one another and trying to surprise each other and discover things together. When we got to Shame, it was like we picked up where we left off… You know, Lumet/Pacino, Coppola and John Cazale… You’re always looking for somebody with some kind of connection, where there’s a chemistry that works, and that person will take you to a place that you wouldn’t be able to find on your own.That was always something I was looking for.” - Michael Fassbender

Shame (2011) dir. Steve McQueen

On director Steve McQueen: “He seemed to have a great empathy and interest in human beings – in how we relate to one another and how we relate to ourselves, and how we negotiate getting through life, sometimes in ordinary situations and sometimes in extraordinary situations. I knew that I would learn from him. But we really started to bond through the making of Hunger, and that was just down to working with one another and trying to surprise each other and discover things together. When we got to Shame, it was like we picked up where we left off… You know, Lumet/Pacino, Coppola and John Cazale… You’re always looking for somebody with some kind of connection, where there’s a chemistry that works, and that person will take you to a place that you wouldn’t be able to find on your own.That was always something I was looking for.” - Michael Fassbender

Shame (2011) dir. Steve McQueen On his next film, also starring Michael Fassbender: “Just to try to do the best film that I could possibly do. Right now I couldn’t do a better film than Shame. I couldn’t do better, but I hope the next one that I do will be better. It will be better.” - Steve McQueen

Shame (2011) dir. Steve McQueen

On his next film, also starring Michael Fassbender: “Just to try to do the best film that I could possibly do. Right now I couldn’t do a better film than Shame. I couldn’t do better, but I hope the next one that I do will be better. It will be better.”

- Steve McQueen