123 Quotes by Ken Loach

If you accept the unacceptable without being angry, then there is something wrong with you.

I was appalled at the idea anybody would withdraw funding from such a valuable project. Closing it would bring harm to the whole community, so why do it?

As sure as the tide comes in, communities will integrate. It is only propaganda that will stop it.

It will stand or fall on the quality of the writers. They need a team of directors and writers with a shared aesthetic and a coherent outlook, who won't be dominated by executives and commissioning editors.

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.

In the end the privatisation of war is not acceptable. We shouldn't be issuing these sub-contracts to these contracting companies because the people who run them are making millions. There should be no relationship between ex-politicians and them, like John Reid and Malcolm Rifkind, who are now associated with contracting companies having been ministers of defence. That's unacceptable.

Every time a colony wants independence, the questions on the agenda are: a) how do you get the imperialists out, and b) what kind of society do you build? There are usually the bourgeois nationalists who say, 'Let's just change the flag and keep everything as it was.' Then there are the revolutionaries who say, 'Let's change the property laws.' It's always a critical moment.

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.

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