Ken Loach

Shaping it is something I would expect to do together with a writer, because that's a director's job.

— Ken Loach

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

I think that's one of the things that sport teaches you. You are only as good as the team around you.

— Ken Loach

I'm not a great cinema-goer.

— Ken Loach

The duty of a film director is to focus more on the soul of the spectator.

— Ken Loach

How families interact is not some abstract concept of mother, son, father, daughter; it has to do with economic circumstances, the work…

— Ken Loach

People talk about Thatcherism all the time. I felt it was important to record the memories of those almost written out of…

— Ken Loach

The Iraq war is a huge subject and there have been many films about it. But it was when the private contractors…

— Ken Loach

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

— Ken Loach

I try to avoid mirrors.

— Ken Loach

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

If you have a society where a large section believe they are not part of the political discourse, that is a situation…

— Ken Loach

Don't take advice. You have to make up your own mind what to do from the beginning.

— Ken Loach

Film can do lots of things: It can produce alternative ideas, ask questions, just record the reality of what's happening, it can…

— 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

The thing is, it's much easier to be a rightwing populist than a leftwing one, because the left always have to explain…

— 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 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

As a medium, film has great potential, but its use is dominated by big capital.

— Ken Loach

If we believe in the free market, then that leads to the big corporations taking power, that leads to this competition to…

— Ken Loach

Maybe if we tell the truth about the past, we can tell the truth about the present.

— 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

There's no great desire to own lots of stuff - and I don't. You can only live in one house and drive…

— 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

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