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Ken Loach Quotes
Ken Loach Quotes
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
Life
You
Memories
Older
Out
About
More
Week
Wiped
Remembering
New
End
Up
Than
Get
Did
Your
Early
Last
Early Life
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
Time
You
People
Oppression
Remember
Politician
Defeat
Strike
Churchill
Has-Been
Criticise
Status
General
Imperialist
Attempt
Instrumental
Him
Been
Ireland
Very
Where
Elevated
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
Art
You
Everything
Collaboration
Collaborative
See
Direction
Only
Costume
Performance
Look
Got
Film
Images
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
Life
Daily
Me
Relationship
Comedy
Significant
Life Happens
Economic
Writers
Between
Always
Context
Been
Very
Personal
Happens
Which
Worked
Daily Life
What the Labour movement is about is a broad mass of people actively engaged in a democratic process.
Ken Loach
People
Broad
About
Mass
Democratic
Democratic Process
Labour
Movement
Process
Engaged
Actively
Those in power always try to distort reality, to suit their needs and keep things safe.
Ken Loach
Needs
Reality
Try
Power
Those
Distort
Safe
Always
Keep
Things
Suit
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
You
Money
Fault
Poverty
Own
Humiliated
Mark
Telling
Make
Smith
Demonstrate
His
Up
Stops
Wanted
Regime
Sanctioned
Them
Poor
Then
Suffer
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
History
Example
Heritage
State
Analyze
Our
Cleansing
For Example
Israel
Discuss
Common
Us
Ethnic
Based
Founding
Oh, I don't like labels.
Ken Loach
Like
Labels
Oh
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
Me
You
Writing
Big
Films
Weakness
Seems
Directing
Most
Learn
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
War
History
Independence
Made
Wind
Later
Jimmy
Would
Civil
About
Seem
Civil War
Shakes
Smaller
Hall
Were
Years
Irish
Pivotal
Story
Which
Really
Barley
Moments
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
You
Director
Phone
Somewhere
Freelance
Looking
Phone Calls
Worst
Worst Thing
About
Make
Calls
Around
Years
Being
Briefcase
Film
Thing
Position
You always feel a degree of insecurity about getting through a film.
Ken Loach
You
Insecurity
Degree
About
Through
Feel
Always
Getting
Film
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
Made
First
Big
Gone
Nice
Every
Films
Too
TV
See
Audience
Tap
Five
Quite
Big Screen
Screen
Film
Four
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
Time
History
Memories
People
Important
Those
Out
Record
Spirit
About
Written
Almost
Talk
Felt
Upheld
Who
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
Election
Leader
First
Party
Hopeful
He
Picket
Since
Along
Most
Line
Began
Labour
Labour Party
Stood
Workers
Jeremy
Ever
Thing
If you think back to the great French directors it's difficult to think of British film-makers who are comparable.
Ken Loach
Great
You
Difficult
Think
Back
Directors
French
Who
Comparable
Film-Makers
British
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
Life
Family
You
Job
Young
Would
Find
Could
Had
Wage
Were
Up
Skill
Bring
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
Work
War
Together
Father
Free
Finished
Everybody
Secure
Security
Would
Factory
Had
Come
Knowing
Schools
Because
Felt
Were
Very
Families
Child
Again
Worked
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
Would
Would-Be
Take
Part
Exciting
18th Century
Call
End
Dentistry
Modern
Century
Now
Enlightenment
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
Business
People
Thought
Some People
Big
Some
Institution
Understandable
Big Business
Leave
Interest
Should
Union
European
European Union
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
Business
Will
Big
Party
Way
Brown
Involved
Gordon
Big Business
Always
Labour
Labour Party
Committed
Want
Again
Interests
Because I've been around a long time I get a bit of leeway that other people don't.
Ken Loach
Time
People
Long
Long Time
Other
Bit
Because
Around
Been
Leeway
Get
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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