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. A loach can't emulate a goldfish. Because of my looks, the public support rating for us won't rise.

Yoshihiko Noda

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. At the root of fear is low self-esteem. This explains why angry people have low self-esteem, are argumentative, stubborn, and quick to flare up yet slow to forgive. Those behaviors are defenses against the underlying fear.

David J. Lieberman

#7. 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

#8. There is an eternal humanity that crosses through all people, and it's more interesting often when it's about struggle - not people with champagne glasses.

Jacqueline Bisset

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. You know what may be the oddest thing about being a star? Stars have an effect on people. It's a responsibility, and it's frightening.

Andie MacDowell

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

Ken Loach

#13. 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

#14. Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#15. In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath.

Conan O'Brien

#16. 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

#17. When you look in the mirror what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you?

David Icke

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

Ken Loach

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

Ken Loach

#20. Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

H.L. Mencken

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

Ken Loach

#22. Even in death may you be triumphant.

Darren Shan

#23. 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

#24. Moonlight possesses no alchemy to transmute good motives to base, but it does excite love magic ...

John Geddes

#25. There's nothing glorious about being a professional ... Professionalism probably comes down to being able to work on a bad day.

Norman Mailer

#26. 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

#27. To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be
over, but part of the stream of life flowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Bertrand Russell

#28. A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

John Quincy Adams

#29. 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