If you think back to the great French directors it's difficult to think of British film-makers who are comparable. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
I think you find amongst ordinary people there are a lot of people that are really talented. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
All politicians will say they celebrate the NHS, but to a greater or lesser extent, they've all undermined it. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
Jeremy Corbyn's election was the most hopeful thing since the Labour Party began. He's the first Labour leader who's ever stood on… — Ken Loach Election Copy Share Image
I was an understudy in a show called 'One Over The Eight' with Kenneth Williams and Sheila Hancock. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
You've only got to look at a film to see that it has to be collaborative - the images, the performances and… — Ken Loach Art Copy Share Image
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 Cinema Copy Share Image
A movie isn't a political movement, a party or even an article. It's just a film. At best it can add its… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
The worst thing about being a freelance film director is that you're scrambling around Soho with a briefcase, looking for somewhere to… — Ken Loach Cinema Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I made one contribution to a film about the 11th of September: there were 11 directors and everyone had a different take… — Ken Loach Cinema 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… — Ken Loach British 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 Civil war Copy Share Image
No political politicians on the board and stop sub-contracting anyway, which means getting out of Iraq. If anything needs to be policed,… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
Iain Duncan Smith and his regime, they wanted to make the poor suffer and then humiliated them by telling them that their… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
We have to defend the migrant workers and give them our support and demand that they have the rights that workers here… — Ken Loach Country 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 Competition 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
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 Audience 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
When I was young, you were told that if you had a skill, you would find a job for life and you… — Ken Loach Family 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… — Ken Loach Actor Copy Share Image
What the Labour movement is about is a broad mass of people actively engaged in a democratic process. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
A journalist uses the most precise words he or she can. An artist does the same sort of thing. You gather material… — Ken Loach Art Copy Share Image
I think the Norweigan model of municipalities owning cinemas and being programmed by people who know about films is a good one. — Ken Loach Being Copy Share Image
The most enjoyable things are the old eighteenth-century terraces that are still standing, that domestic architecture. — Ken Loach Architecture Copy Share Image
About Thatcher's death: Let's privatise her funeral. Put it out on competetive tender and accept the cheapest bid. That's what she would… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
A film is one small voice among other large ones. The film is a tiny part of the discourse. You do what… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
If change is to come, it must come from the working class. That's why telling their story is important. That's why knowing… — Ken Loach Change Copy Share Image
“If you accept the unacceptable without being angry, then there is something wrong with you.” — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
My father worked in a factory and as a child it felt very secure. It felt very secure because everybody had work,… — Ken Loach Children 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 Comedy 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… — Ken Loach Cinema Copy Share Image
The job of the director is to make certain that the film has one voice and a sense of a single vision,… — Ken Loach Cinema Copy Share Image
History is for all of us to discuss. All history is our common heritage to discuss and analyze. The founding of the… — Ken Loach Heritage Copy Share Image
I hate programmes where some TV personality looks you in the eye and tells you what to think - the Andrew Marr… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
