Skip to content

Cinema Quote by Ken Loach

“I'm not a great cinema-goer.” quote by Ken Loach — Download Open image

“I'm not a great cinema-goer.”

About This Quote

Source Interview: Cinema Perspectives, Ken Loach, 2014

He admits he is not an avid movie‑goer, implying a selective engagement with film.

In simple terms: He isn’t a frequent cinema visitor.

Key Takeaway

Accept personal preferences in media consumption.

Themes

personal taste media consumption authenticity

Mood

contemplative neutral

Type

personal reflective

When to use this quote

social events
film festivals
streaming choices

Key Concepts

film criticism cultural habits

Questions to Reflect On

Why do you choose certain media?
How does selective viewing shape your worldview?

A Different Perspective

Limited viewing may restrict cultural awareness.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings)

Cinema Cinema Goer Film Goer Great Great Cinema

More by Ken Loach

One lesson to learn is that the press and the broadcasters are not neutral. And it seems we have to learn it each time…

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…

Image

A TV series is a long commitment.

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…

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…

Image

We have what we call 'fake left' politicians, like Ed Miliband and those who went before him.

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…

Image

Surprise is something that's very difficult to act.

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.

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…

Image

Politics lives in people, ideas live in people, they live in the concrete struggles that people have.

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…

Image

Explore all 116 Ken Loach quotes

More Cinema quotes

I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have…

Image

You have to have a great director to make a great movie.

Thelma Schoonmaker

Image

I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier.

Image

I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived.

Image

There was a time in the 1980s when I worked in 22 films a year.

Image

To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to…

Image

In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but…

Image

I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor…

Image

I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people.

Image

Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.…

Image

I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.…

Laura Carmichael

Image

I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images

Federico Fellini

Image

Browse all 23,940 Cinema quotes