Paul Laverty is a wonderful writer and we've worked together for a quarter of a century. — 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
For the writers I have worked with and for me, the relationship between the personal comedy of daily life and the economic… — 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
It seems to me the big weakness in most films is the writing. You can learn directing, but you can't learn writing. — 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
