‘Blitz’ Director Steve McQueen On His Homage To Wartime London: “It Wasn’t About Ticking Boxes”
deadline.comSteve McQueen The director of Blitz talks us through the choices he made to create his dreamlike love letter to wartime London 1 — Don’t look back None of my films have been similar to any other film, from Occupied City to Hunger to Small Axe to Shame.
I mean, they are all very, very, very different. And that’s not just because I want to be different, it’s because the subject matter asks for it to be like that.
It’s all about subject matter, and then making work that can enhance what I want to talk about. With Blitz, I wanted to look through a child’s perspective.
Like a Brothers Grimm fairytale, it’s very dark, but it’s almost like a dream — and I think that seeing these things through a child’s perspective is what gives it a dreamlike quality.
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