Steve McQueen Quotes
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There is no right or wrong angle for something. The idea of putting the camera in an unfamiliar position is simply to do with film language. Sometimes it is spectacular, sometimes it is ugly, sometimes it is uninteresting.
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I live for myself and answer to nobody
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Stardom equals financial success and financial success equals security. I've spent too much of my life feeling insecure. I still have nightmares about being poor, of everything I own just vanishing away. Stardom means that can't happen.
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I deal with certain things in my work because of who I am. I make work in order to make people think.
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Racing is life. Everything else is just waiting.
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If I hadn't made it as an actor, I might have wound up a hood.
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The camera movement should be like a cat jumping onto a table - with just enough amount of effort and that's it. That's enough.
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Anything that doesn't make sense, I don't want to give too much of my brain to.
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The person is being confrontational.
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I hope you find what you're looking for.
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I believe in me. I'm a little screwed up, but I'm beautiful.
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Nobody trusts anyone, or why did they put tilt on a pinball machine.
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Everyone deserves not just to survive, but to live.
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Ill never be as good an actor as I want to be....but I'll be good.
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I want people to do what they want to do because when they feel comfortable it seems to translate better on screen. It is when you put people in a straitjacket that it doesn't seem to translate very well at all. The individuals I work with are usually people I know.
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I liked being in the Marines. They gave me discipline I could live with. By the time I got out, I was able to cope with things on a more realistic level.
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I have difficulty putting words in peoples' mouths. The best dialogue is very, very thin dialogue; you let people improvise and then basically you record what they've improvised and then write it down.
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The world is as good as you are. You've got to learn to like yourself first.
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I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.
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I need to have a reason why I'm doing something. Otherwise I'm lost.
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I don't like to put too much effort into things. I find that once you get involved with special effects it is no longer about what is happening in front of the camera and I really want to concentrate on what is happening in front of the camera, like the man apparently peeing on the surface of the screen.
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People try to contain things by putting them into categories. I don't.
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I don't want to talk about nonsense because it doesn't help me.
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The Navajos have a saying they live by: 'A land where there is time enough and room enough.' I want that, too.
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I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.
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Sometimes you have to say goodbye to the things you know and hello to the things you dont.
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Often the best way to relax is just to go back to work.
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As far as art and filmmaking is concerned, I don't see there's any separation; it's just one continuous thing.
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Every time I start thinking the world is all bad, then I start seeing people out there having a good time on motorcycles. It makes me take another look.
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When I walk out into the street or go to the toilet, I don't think of myself as being black. Of course, other people think of me as black when I walk into a pub. Obviously being black is a part of me.
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