A journalist uses the most precise words he or she can. An artist does the same sort of thing. You gather material about a particular subject, you refine it as best you can. Ken Loach Read Quote
Because I’ve been around a long time I get a bit of leeway that other people don’t. Ken Loach Read Quote
There’s so much control, so many executive producers, so many people looking over their shoulder, so many people trying to second-guess the boss. The space for writers and directors and actors to be creative is zilch. Ken Loach Read Quote
I think people think of auteurs as being a dictator shouting over everyone about his vision. That’s not the way I think of auteurs or the way I work. Ken Loach Read Quote
There’s no great desire to own lots of stuff – and I don’t. You can only live in one house and drive one car. Ken Loach Read Quote
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 so you reflect the way the world is in some way. It comes out of experience. I think it’s OK to do that. Ken Loach Read Quote
I think that cinema is medium of communication. It’s as valid as novels or fine art. Ken Loach Read Quote
The E.U. is an economically right-wing organization that prioritizes the interests of big corporations. Ken Loach Read Quote
You’ve only got to look at a film to see that it has to be collaborative – the images, the performances and all the art direction and the costume, everything shrieks collaboration. Ken Loach Read Quote
We made ‘The Wind That Shakes the Barley’ about the war of independence and the civil war, which were the pivotal moments of Irish history, really. ‘Jimmy’s Hall’ would seem to be a smaller story 10 years later. Ken Loach Read Quote
