There’s Steve McQueen and then there’s cool. When he walks on to the screen, he kidnaps you. You just want to look at Steve McQueen. I Am Steve McQueen, Gary Oldman, Sky Arts 2019
Those eyes: he could give you that stare. You knew he meant business: ‘You work your side of the street. And I’ll work mine.’ ibid.
Steve McQueen is the coolest of the cool. The searing performances in blockbusters like The Magnificent 7 and Bullitt, and his love for fast cars, beautiful women, and life on the edge, he was one of the hottest cultural icons of the twentieth century. ibid.
This is the story of one man who pushed the boundaries, broke the rules and drove through life on his own terms. ibid.
Music has always been like a curse with me … The first thing in my life … It’s always there. Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool, BBC 2020
I was born in Alton, Illinois in a little river town upon the Mississippi River, and my father the family to east Saint Louis. ibid.
It was hard for me to come back to the bullshit white people put a black person through in this country. I lost my sense of discipline. I lost my sense of control. My life had started to drift. And before I knew it I had a heroin habit … that’s all I lived for. ibid.
Miles Davis was the personification of cool. That mythological hero. He becomes our black superman. ibid. lady
You’re a mighty cool dude, Guillermo. What We Do in the Shadows s2e3: Brain Scrambles, head of vampire killers’ club, BBC 2020
I’m cool. I quit. Shaft 2000 starring Samuel L Jackson & Venessa Williams & Jeffrey Wright & Christian Bale & Richard Roundtree & Pat Hinge & Busta Ryhmes & Dan Hedaya et al, director John Singleton, Shaft
In the early fifties a kind of jazz developed on the west coast which was laid-back and lyrical – it was labelled Cool. Arena: Dave Brubeck – In His Own Sweet Way, BBC 2013