Ken Loach Quotes

Ken Loach
Ken Loach
English Director
Born: Jun 17, 1936
Big Film Great People Think You
I think people think of auteurs as being a dictator shouting over everyone about his vision. That's not the way I think of auteurs or the way I work. Ken Loach
Work People Vision Think Everyone I Think Way About Over His Dictator Being Shouting
How families interact is not some abstract concept of mother, son, father, daughter; it has to do with economic circumstances, the work they do, the time they can spend with each other. Ken Loach
Work Time Son Mother Father Daughter Other Spend Circumstances Some Economic Abstract Concept How Families Interact Each
My mum was a peacemaker, and in personal things I tend to do that, because I can't deal with personal conflict. I find that horrible. Ken Loach
Conflict Find Horrible Tend Because Deal Personal Personal Things Peacemaker Mum Things
I challenge the idea that films about rich people are escapism and films about working class people are dour and sad. I find the opposite's the case. Ken Loach
Sad Class People Challenge Rich Films Find About Case Idea Opposite Escapism Rich People Working Working-Class
I think it's time British filmmakers stopped allowing themselves to be colonized so ruthlessly by U.S. ideas and stopped looking so slavishly to the U.S. market. It demeans filmmaking when they do that. Ken Loach
Time Looking Think Market I Think Allowing Ideas Stopped Themselves British Filmmakers Filmmaking
The Labour election of 1945 was a tremendous victory for democratic ownership of the economy. Ken Loach
Victory Election Ownership Tremendous Economy Democratic Labour
We have what we call ‘fake left' politicians, like Ed Miliband and those who went before him. Ken Loach
Before Politicians Those Like Call Him Fake Left Who
The far right was on the march in the 1930s, and we defeated the fascists through a great united working-class effort. That sense of unity and strength is what gave people confidence to change things. Ken Loach
Strength Great Confidence Change People Sense Unity Change Things Gave Through 1930s Effort Far Far Right Working-Class Fascists United March Right Things Defeated
I think that's one of the things that sport teaches you. You are only as good as the team around you. Ken Loach
Good You Think I Think One Of The Things Only Sport Around Teaches Team Things
It's what people have always done. They have always told stories, put on plays. It's characters and narrative and thought and context and resolution so you reflect the way the world is in some way. It comes out of experience. I think it's OK to do that. Ken Loach
You Experience People World Thought Reflect Think I Think Way OK Out Characters Some Put Narrative Always Context Done Stories Plays Resolution
The most enjoyable things are the old eighteenth-century terraces that are still standing, that domestic architecture. Ken Loach
Architecture Old Most Still Domestic Standing Enjoyable Things
If you're a politician, you can see there might be times when, to secure the greater good, you have to take a backwards step. That is a matter of tactics. Ken Loach
Good You Matter Backwards Politician Secure See Tactics Take Step Greater Greater Good Times Might
Politics lives in people, ideas live in people, they live in the concrete struggles that people have. Ken Loach
Politics People Live Struggles Ideas Concrete Lives
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
Director People Vision Job Single Sense Those Though Voice Voices Individual Make Making Contributions Turn Produced Certain Large Even Large Number Film Coherent Number
A film has got to demand to be made. Otherwise - if it's just, 'Shall we? Why not?' - you shouldn't make it. Ken Loach
You Made Otherwise Shall Demand Make Got Just Film Why Why Not
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
You Problem Out Follow Follow Through Through Implications Make Story Then Really Certain Film Cop
If all political parties are committed to the role of the free market, the politicians act as, I don't know, as traffic policemen; they stand outside the ring and let the real decisions be slugged out by entrepreneurs. That doesn't seem to me a proper democracy. Ken Loach
Me Democracy Political Free Politicians Market Out Ring Seem Proper Free Market Entrepreneurs Outside Know Parties Policemen Real Traffic Political Parties Role Committed Decisions Act Stand
If you have a society where a large section believe they are not part of the political discourse, that is a situation for trouble. Ken Loach
You Political Trouble Situation Believe Society Section Part Discourse Where Large
I was stage-struck from an early age. I just loved the language. We lived quite near Stratford so I would cycle and watch the plays. Ken Loach
Age Language Would Quite Just Loved Cycle Stratford Lived Near Watch Early Early Age Plays
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