123 Quotes by Ken Loach

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

It's time to put back on the agenda the importance of public ownership and public good, the value of working together collaboratively, not in competition.

I made one contribution to a film about the 11th of September: there were 11 directors and everyone had a different take on that. Some I thought were valid and some less so, but there was a substantial point that knitted all the films together - a comment on the bombing of the World Trade Center - so there was something to get your teeth into.

I think that cinema is medium of communication. It's as valid as novels or fine art.