"Again, in realty that would never happen. We’ve met for the first time, you’re not going to tell me your whole story, I’m not telling you my whole story. In the movies, everyone says oh, I did this when I was a kid— no one talks like that. I wanted the situation where when you walk into the movie, it’s already running, and when you leave the movie it continues. The whole idea of popping in as an audience into this movie, we bring our history, our past and our present, and we sit down and can decide what possibly happened. I wanted to make a situation that was familiar." - Steve McQueen on Brandon and Sissy’s backstory in Shame (via grownupjustgettingolder)