Ken Loach Quotes

Ken Loach
Ken Loach
English Director
Born: Jun 17, 1936
Big Film Great People Think You
The older you get the more new memories get wiped out, and you end up remembering more about your early life than what you did last week. Ken Loach
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Churchill the right-winger has been elevated to a status where you can't criticise him. People from the time remember him as an imperialist, a hard-right politician, very instrumental in the oppression of Ireland and the attempt to defeat the general strike. Ken Loach
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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
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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
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What the Labour movement is about is a broad mass of people actively engaged in a democratic process. Ken Loach
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Those in power always try to distort reality, to suit their needs and keep things safe. Ken Loach
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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
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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
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Oh, I don't like labels. Ken Loach
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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
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Ordinary people can be very articulate and very eloquent. Ken Loach
People Eloquent Very Articulate Ordinary Ordinary People
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
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The worst thing about being a freelance film director is that you're scrambling around Soho with a briefcase, looking for somewhere to make phone calls. That was my position for 10 years. Ken Loach
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You always feel a degree of insecurity about getting through a film. Ken Loach
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Every four or five films we've made a film that has gone on TV first. It's quite nice to tap into the TV audience, but it is nice to see it on the big screen too. Ken Loach
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People talk about Thatcherism all the time. I felt it was important to record the memories of those almost written out of history who upheld the spirit of '45. Ken Loach
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I think the Norweigan model of municipalities owning cinemas and being programmed by people who know about films is a good one. Ken Loach
Good People Think Films Cinemas I Think About Know Model Owning Being Who Programmed
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
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If you think back to the great French directors it's difficult to think of British film-makers who are comparable. Ken Loach
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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
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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
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It would be exciting to take part in what we now call the Enlightenment at the end of the 18th century, but with modern dentistry. Ken Loach
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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
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Gordon Brown is and always will be committed to the interests of big business, so there's no way I want to be involved in the Labour Party again. Ken Loach
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Because I've been around a long time I get a bit of leeway that other people don't. Ken Loach
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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
Work Competition Free Power Big Believe Market Corporations Free Market Taking Leads Wages Big Corporations Precarious Then Lower
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