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
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
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
It's a great privilege to make a film, to have it shown, and for people to see it. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
I challenge the idea that films about rich people are escapism and films about working class people are dour and sad. I… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
We have what we call 'fake left' politicians, like Ed Miliband and those who went before him. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Politics lives in people, ideas live in people, they live in the concrete struggles that people have. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
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 Image
