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 Read Quote
For the writers I have worked with and for me, the relationship between the personal comedy of daily life and the economic context in which that life happens has always been very significant. Ken Loach Read Quote
There has been no more principled opposition to racism than Jeremy Corbyn: he was getting arrested for protesting against Apartheid when the rest of them were doing deals and calling Nelson Mandela a terrorist. Ken Loach Read Quote
Most cities are eclectic. There’s a bit of medieval, Georgian, some Victorian and some 20th century. That’s fine. Bath is different because it was built within 100 years or less. It has a homogeneity. Ken Loach Read Quote
The problem is, if you make a film that has certain implications in the story, and then you don’t follow through, it’s a cop out really, isn’t it? Ken Loach Read Quote
We have to defend the migrant workers and give them our support and demand that they have the rights that workers here have from day one, but absolutely hate the system that forces people to leave their country, leave their homes, leave their families, to go somewhere else to be exploited. Ken Loach Read Quote
I made one contribution to a film about the 11th of September: there were 11 directors and everyone had a different take on that. Some I thought were valid and some less so, but there was a substantial point that knitted all the films together – a comment on the bombing of the World Trade Center – so there was something to get your teeth into. Ken Loach Read Quote
In the 1980s, I had a lot of films, documentaries for television, which were about why the trade unions had failed to organize resistance to Margaret Thatcher’s plans. And they were banned. I had to fight for those films. Ken Loach Read Quote
Paul Laverty is a wonderful writer and we’ve worked together for a quarter of a century. Ken Loach Read Quote
