Writer/director Steve McQueen talks with Moving Pictures at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival about influences in his art; how his film, Hunger, has changed him; audience responsibility; and the relevance of the message to today's audience.

Interview by Elliot V. Kotek
Video by Alexis Madden
Still photo by Scott McDermott

Click to see MPM's movie review of Hunger.
Click to see interview with lead Michael Fassbender (who portrays Irish Republican hunger striker Bobby Sands). (also in print version)

Visit MPM Covers Toronto '08 for plenty more from this exciting fest: interviews (on video and in print), movie reviews and unfiltered guest contributions directly from the filmmaker. 

Steve McQueen discusses his childhood awakening, influences in art, audience responsibility and the resonance of the story he is telling with Hunger for a 2008 audience.

Steve McQueen discusses how Hunger has changed him, how he developed an intimacy of real time and how international audiences have responded to the film.