123 Quotes by Ken Loach

Don't take advice. You have to make up your own mind what to do from the beginning.

There's a heresy which is perpetuated by film school that to be a great director you have to write your own stuff.

Politics lives in people, ideas live in people, they live in the concrete struggles that people have.

You always feel a degree of insecurity about getting through a film.

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.

The thing is, it's much easier to be a rightwing populist than a leftwing one, because the left always have to explain why things are the way they are. The right can just blame the foreigners.

The most enjoyable things are the old eighteenth-century terraces that are still standing, that domestic architecture.

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.

A TV series is a long commitment.