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 Copy Share Image
Bath was dusty and a little shabby when we moved here. It did look its age and you felt its history in… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
Because I've been around a long time I get a bit of leeway that other people don't. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every time a colony wants independence, the questions on the agenda are: a) how do you get the imperialists out, and b)… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
We made 'The Wind That Shakes the Barley' about the war of independence and the civil war, which were the pivotal moments… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
How families interact is not some abstract concept of mother, son, father, daughter; it has to do with economic circumstances, the work… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
People talk about Thatcherism all the time. I felt it was important to record the memories of those almost written out of… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
Churchill the right-winger has been elevated to a status where you can't criticise him. People from the time remember him as an… — 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
Maybe if we tell the truth about the past, we can tell the truth about the present. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
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 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
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
