The European Union is an institution that is in the interest of big business, not the European people. So it’s understandable that some people thought we should leave. Ken Loach Read Quote
Those in power always try to distort reality, to suit their needs and keep things safe. Ken Loach Read Quote
There are different cinema traditions in France, Spain and other European countries. There’s a much stronger intellectual tradition: cinema is seen in a more serious way. Ken Loach Read Quote
Iain Duncan Smith and his regime, they wanted to make the poor suffer and then humiliated them by telling them that their poverty was their own fault and, to demonstrate that, if you’re not up to mark then you’re sanctioned and the money stops. Ken Loach Read Quote
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 the picket line along with workers. Ken Loach Read Quote
The job of the director is to make certain that the film has one voice and a sense of a single vision, even though it’s produced by a large number of people making contributions – to turn all those contributions from individual voices into one coherent one. Ken Loach Read Quote
I don’t think films about working class people are sad at all; I think they’re funny and lively and invigorating and warm and generous and full of good things. Ken Loach Read Quote
After ‘The Gamekeeper’ I made one other film called ‘Looks and Smiles,’ but making British films was very difficult. There wasn’t a tradition of British cinema. Ken Loach Read Quote
We did a film called ‘Kes,’ which is about a lad with a talent that nobody can recognise, or that nobody chose to recognise. Ken Loach Read Quote
