People who are deaf or hard of hearing need all the support we can give them. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
I think that cinema is medium of communication. It's as valid as novels or fine art. — Ken Loach Art Copy Share Image
Paul Laverty is a wonderful writer and we've worked together for a quarter of a century. — 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
It's a great privilege to make a film, to have it shown, and for people to see it. — Ken Loach Cinema Copy Share Image
I think people think of auteurs as being a dictator shouting over everyone about his vision. That's not the way I think… — Ken Loach Auteurs 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 Directors Copy Share Image
We did a film called 'Kes,' which is about a lad with a talent that nobody can recognise, or that nobody chose… — 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… — Ken Loach Broadcasters Copy Share Image
The Labour election of 1945 was a tremendous victory for democratic ownership of the economy. — Ken Loach Economy Copy Share Image
The European Union is an institution that is in the interest of big business, not the European people. So it's understandable that… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
If we believe in the free market, then that leads to the big corporations taking power, that leads to this competition to… — 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… — 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 Age Copy Share Image
There has been no more principled opposition to racism than Jeremy Corbyn: he was getting arrested for protesting against Apartheid when the… — Ken Loach Apartheid Copy Share Image
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 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
If all political parties are committed to the role of the free market, the politicians act as, I don't know, as traffic… — Ken Loach Business 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
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 Boss 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 British Copy Share Image
What strikes me - we're apparently at the mercy of an economic system that will never work and the big question is,… — Ken Loach Change Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are different cinema traditions in France, Spain and other European countries. There's a much stronger intellectual tradition: cinema is seen in… — Ken Loach Cinema Copy Share Image
It would be exciting to take part in what we now call the Enlightenment at the end of the 18th century, but… — 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
A film has got to demand to be made. Otherwise - if it's just, 'Shall we? Why not?' - you shouldn't make… — Ken Loach Cinema Copy Share Image
Jimmy's Hall' is set in Ireland in the '30s and everything that went under the camera we had to generate. — Ken Loach Camera Copy Share Image
The BBC is very aware of its role in shaping people's consciousness... it's manipulative and deeply political. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
I think that's one of the things that sport teaches you. You are only as good as the team around you. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
If you have a society where a large section believe they are not part of the political discourse, that is a situation… — 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… — Ken Loach Age Copy Share Image
After 'The Gamekeeper' I made one other film called 'Looks and Smiles,' but making British films was very difficult. There wasn't a… — Ken Loach British Copy Share Image
“In 1969 Billy Casper was going into a job he didn't want. Today he'd be lucky to get a part-time casual job… — Ken Loach Casper Copy Share Image
Politics lives in people, ideas live in people, they live in the concrete struggles that people have. — Ken Loach Ideas Copy Share Image
It's more interesting to see new people on the screen when you go to the cinema. I don't want to see the… — Ken Loach Cinema Copy Share Image
Gordon Brown is and always will be committed to the interests of big business, so there's no way I want to be… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
You'll get unsociable people whatever the nationality, colour, race or creed. I guess the British abroad have probably got the worst record… — Ken Loach British Copy Share Image
