Ken Loach Quotes

#1. Mike Leigh and Ken Loach are the people I look up to. They are quality film-makers making interesting, controversial, ground-breaking movies with very little eye on the marketplace.

Eric Fellner

#2. Personally, I don't give a toss about French viewers. I make films for foreigners - it's a bit like Ken Loach, who's not very popular in England but has had a lot of success in France. Cinema is always an experience in a foreign body.

Bruno Dumont

#3. It depends who the director is you know, I mean Ken Loach for instance. I've done up to 32 takes with him.

Robert Carlyle

#4. I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got it. Its all the things I think are despicable: patronage, deferring to the monarchy and the name of the British Empire, which is a monument of exploitation and conquest.

Ken Loach

#5. History is contemporary. Your understanding of history confirms what you think of the present. It's not neutral. I would be very surprised if people with a different view of the present, don't take issue with my view of the past. I just hope that people deal with the content of the film.

Ken Loach

#6. A movie isn't a political movement, a party or even an article. It's just a film. At best it can add its voice to public outrage.

Ken Loach

#7. Was the sort of jerk who would entice a young girl with candy and consider it a smart operation.

Robert A. Heinlein

#8. A film is one small voice among other large ones. The film is a tiny part of the discourse. You do what you can but under no illusions of what a film can do.

Ken Loach

#9. Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

Rabindranath Tagore

#10. Shaping it is something I would expect to do together with a writer, because that's a director's job.

Ken Loach

#11. In 1969 Billy Casper was going into a job he didn't want. Today he'd be lucky to get a part-time casual job in a far more hostile world. Maybe we should ask what went wrong.

Ken Loach

#12. Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Plato

#13. One lesson to learn is that the press and the broadcasters are not neutral. And it seems we have to learn it each time there is a dispute: they are actually committed to one side.

Ken Loach

#14. Maybe if we tell the truth about the past, we can tell the truth about the present.

Ken Loach

#15. The invisible are always so resolutely invisible, until you see them.

Jonathan Lethem

#16. The most depressing thing is the political slogan: there is no alternative. But there is.

Ken Loach

#17. I'm vomiting days before I start shooting a new movie.

Joaquin Phoenix

#18. The duty of a film director is to focus more on the soul of the spectator.

Ken Loach

#19. No political politicians on the board and stop sub-contracting anyway, which means getting out of Iraq. If anything needs to be policed, it needs to be done through a proper international body ... not through us sub-contracting teams of mercenaries.

Ken Loach

#20. You'll get unsociable people whatever the nationality, colour, race or creed. I guess the British abroad have probably got the worst record of anyone.

Ken Loach

#21. I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That's how I've gotten to where I am.

Beyonce Knowles

#22. It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery.

Moncure D. Conway

#23. I knew 'Be Our Guest' would be performed on a set and in costume, but anyone with a history in Theatre In Education will know that can mean anything.

Pippa Evans

#24. About Thatcher's death: Let's privatise her funeral. Put it out on competetive tender and accept the cheapest bid. That's what she would have wanted.

Ken Loach