Author Profile
Ken Loach
1936 • English • Director
63
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 63 quotesThe 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
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
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 we make the film.— Ken Loach
It seems to me the big weakness in most films is the writing. You can learn directing, but you can't learn writing.— Ken Loach
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
Jimmy's Hall' is set in Ireland in the '30s and everything that went under the camera we had to generate.— Ken Loach
If we believe in the free market, then that leads to the big corporations taking power, that leads to this competition to lower wages, and that leads to precarious work.— Ken Loach
When I was young, you were told that if you had a skill, you would find a job for life and you could bring up a family on the wage.— Ken Loach
We have what we call 'fake left' politicians, like Ed Miliband and those who went before him.— Ken Loach
History is for all of us to discuss. All history is our common heritage to discuss and analyze. The founding of the state of Israel, for example, based on ethnic cleansing is there for us all to discuss.— Ken Loach
If change is to come, it must come from the working class. That's why telling their story is important. That's why knowing our history is important.— Ken Loach
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
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
What the Labour movement is about is a broad mass of people actively engaged in a democratic process.— Ken Loach