A film has got to demand to be made. Otherwise - if it's just, 'Shall we? Why not?' - you shouldn't make… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
Shaping it is something I would expect to do together with a writer, because that's a director's job. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
The duty of a film director is to focus more on the soul of the spectator. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
I think that cinema is medium of communication. It's as valid as novels or fine art. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
It's a great privilege to make a film, to have it shown, and for people to see it. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
As a medium, film has great potential, but its use is dominated by big capital. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
I think it's time British filmmakers stopped allowing themselves to be colonized so ruthlessly by U.S. ideas and stopped looking so slavishly… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
There are different cinema traditions in France, Spain and other European countries. There's a much stronger intellectual tradition: cinema is seen in… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
There's so much control, so many executive producers, so many people looking over their shoulder, so many people trying to second-guess the… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
The worst thing about being a freelance film director is that you're scrambling around Soho with a briefcase, looking for somewhere to… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
The problem is, if you make a film that has certain implications in the story, and then you don't follow through, it's… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
We did a film called 'Kes,' which is about a lad with a talent that nobody can recognise, or that nobody chose… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
I don't think films about working class people are sad at all; I think they're funny and lively and invigorating and warm… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
I think the Norweigan model of municipalities owning cinemas and being programmed by people who know about films is a good one. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
History is contemporary. Your understanding of history confirms what you think of the present. It's not neutral. I would be very surprised… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
Film can do lots of things: It can produce alternative ideas, ask questions, just record the reality of what's happening, it can… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
The job of the director is to make certain that the film has one voice and a sense of a single vision,… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
I made one contribution to a film about the 11th of September: there were 11 directors and everyone had a different take… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
The Iraq war is a huge subject and there have been many films about it. But it was when the private contractors… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
Film is one small voice in a great cacophony of noise from newspapers, from the television, from social media, so it can… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
A film is one small voice among other large ones. The film is a tiny part of the discourse. You do what… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
Preparation is really important for actors; they need to know who they are, where they're from, and the experiences up to the… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
You've only got to look at a film to see that it has to be collaborative - the images, the performances and… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
Every four or five films we've made a film that has gone on TV first. It's quite nice to tap into the… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
There's a heresy which is perpetuated by film school that to be a great director you have to write your own stuff. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
A movie isn't a political movement, a party or even an article. It's just a film. At best it can add its… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
One lesson to learn is that the press and the broadcasters are not neutral. And it seems we have to learn it each time… — Ken Loach Copy Share
Film is one small voice in a great cacophony of noise from newspapers, from the television, from social media, so it can have a… — Ken Loach Copy Share
Often people write stories about people who are suffering, and they're miserable all the time. That's not the case. You go to the food… — Ken Loach Copy Share
Preparation is really important for actors; they need to know who they are, where they're from, and the experiences up to the point that… — Ken Loach Copy Share
We have what we call 'fake left' politicians, like Ed Miliband and those who went before him. — Ken Loach Copy Share
I was stage-struck from an early age. I just loved the language. We lived quite near Stratford so I would cycle and watch the… — Ken Loach Copy Share
I know there are people who can direct sitting down away from it all at a video monitor. But I can't do that. — Ken Loach Copy Share
It's what people have always done. They have always told stories, put on plays. It's characters and narrative and thought and context and resolution… — Ken Loach Copy Share
Politics lives in people, ideas live in people, they live in the concrete struggles that people have. — Ken Loach Copy Share
The older you get the more new memories get wiped out, and you end up remembering more about your early life than what you… — Ken Loach Copy Share
After 'The Gamekeeper' I made one other film called 'Looks and Smiles,' but making British films was very difficult. There wasn't a tradition of… — Ken Loach Copy Share
Gordon Brown is and always will be committed to the interests of big business, so there's no way I want to be involved in… — Ken Loach Copy Share
