Every time a colony wants independence, the questions on the agenda are: a) how do you get the imperialists out, and b) what kind of society do you build? There are usually the bourgeois nationalists who say, 'Let's just change… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got it. Its all the things I think are despicable: patronage, deferring to the monarchy and the name of… — 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
