If you think back to the great French directors it’s difficult to think of British film-makers who are comparable. Ken Loach Read Quote
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 bank or wherever and there’s laughter, there’s comedy, there’s stupidity, there’s silliness and warmth. And that’s the reality of people’s lives. If you cut out that sense of humor and warmth, you miss the point. Ken Loach Read Quote
Don’t take advice. You have to make up your own mind what to do from the beginning. Ken Loach Read Quote
My father worked in a factory and as a child it felt very secure. It felt very secure because everybody had work, the schools were free, so there was a security of knowing that the war had finished and families would come together again. Ken Loach Read Quote
I hate programmes where some TV personality looks you in the eye and tells you what to think – the Andrew Marr version of history. I hate the authorial voice telling you what to think. Ken Loach Read Quote
All politicians will say they celebrate the NHS, but to a greater or lesser extent, they’ve all undermined it. Ken Loach Read Quote
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 Read Quote
How families interact is not some abstract concept of mother, son, father, daughter; it has to do with economic circumstances, the work they do, the time they can spend with each other. Ken Loach Read Quote
