At an extreme extent, Ido agree withhisbelief in that even though "everybody else is smarterthanI am", what matters most is that "Ican learn whateverIneed to know to solve the problem.
McQueen could hardly be hipper, yet he remains, toanextent, an old-fashioned aesthete, drawn toextreme behavior in his characters not because of any trials of spirit that they undergo but because he is challenging himself to unleash the wildest material that he, wielding his camera, can then possess and tame.
He does this with surprising subtlety, to the extent that he once took legal action against a journalist who said directly that he was anextreme right winger.