Ken Loach

If change is to come, it must come from the working class. That's why telling their story is important. That's why knowing…

— Ken Loach

“If you accept the unacceptable without being angry, then there is something wrong with you.”

— Ken Loach

A journalist uses the most precise words he or she can. An artist does the same sort of thing. You gather material…

— Ken Loach

I think the Norweigan model of municipalities owning cinemas and being programmed by people who know about films is a good one.

— Ken Loach

About Thatcher's death: Let's privatise her funeral. Put it out on competetive tender and accept the cheapest bid. That's what she would…

— Ken Loach

The most enjoyable things are the old eighteenth-century terraces that are still standing, that domestic architecture.

— Ken Loach

You've only got to look at a film to see that it has to be collaborative - the images, the performances and…

— Ken Loach

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

Often people write stories about people who are suffering, and they're miserable all the time. That's not the case. You go to…

— Ken Loach

In the 1980s, I had a lot of films, documentaries for television, which were about why the trade unions had failed to…

— Ken Loach

History is for all of us to discuss. All history is our common heritage to discuss and analyze. The founding of the…

— Ken Loach

I hate programmes where some TV personality looks you in the eye and tells you what to think - the Andrew Marr…

— Ken Loach

Film is one small voice in a great cacophony of noise from newspapers, from the television, from social media, so it can…

— Ken Loach

The job of the director is to make certain that the film has one voice and a sense of a single vision,…

— Ken Loach

No political politicians on the board and stop sub-contracting anyway, which means getting out of Iraq. If anything needs to be policed,…

— Ken Loach

We made 'The Wind That Shakes the Barley' about the war of independence and the civil war, which were the pivotal moments…

— Ken Loach

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

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

We have what we call 'fake left' politicians, like Ed Miliband and those who went before him.

— Ken Loach

It's time to put back on the agenda the importance of public ownership and public good, the value of working together collaboratively,…

— Ken Loach

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

What the Labour movement is about is a broad mass of people actively engaged in a democratic process.

— Ken Loach

If you're a politician, you can see there might be times when, to secure the greater good, you have to take a…

— Ken Loach

When I was young, you were told that if you had a skill, you would find a job for life and you…

— Ken Loach

I think you find amongst ordinary people there are a lot of people that are really talented.

— Ken Loach

You'll get unsociable people whatever the nationality, colour, race or creed. I guess the British abroad have probably got the worst record…

— Ken Loach

If you think back to the great French directors it's difficult to think of British film-makers who are comparable.

— Ken Loach

All politicians will say they celebrate the NHS, but to a greater or lesser extent, they've all undermined it.

— Ken Loach

I was an understudy in a show called 'One Over The Eight' with Kenneth Williams and Sheila Hancock.

— Ken Loach

Jeremy Corbyn's election was the most hopeful thing since the Labour Party began. He's the first Labour leader who's ever stood on…

— Ken Loach

Iain Duncan Smith and his regime, they wanted to make the poor suffer and then humiliated them by telling them that their…

— Ken Loach

We have to defend the migrant workers and give them our support and demand that they have the rights that workers here…

— Ken Loach

For the writers I have worked with and for me, the relationship between the personal comedy of daily life and the economic…

— Ken Loach

My father worked in a factory and as a child it felt very secure. It felt very secure because everybody had work,…

— Ken Loach

I made one contribution to a film about the 11th of September: there were 11 directors and everyone had a different take…

— Ken Loach

I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got…

— Ken Loach