123 Quotes by Ken Loach

The older you get the more new memories get wiped out, and you end up remembering more about your early life than what you did last week.

I think people think of auteurs as being a dictator shouting over everyone about his vision. That's not the way I think of auteurs or the way I work.

When you're at the wrong end of your 70s, everything is a challenge.

A journalist uses the most precise words he or she can. An artist does the same sort of thing. You gather material about a particular subject, you refine it as best you can.

You've only got to look at a film to see that it has to be collaborative - the images, the performances and all the art direction and the costume, everything shrieks collaboration.

In general I think that in art you only have the responsibility to tell the truth.

I know there are people who can direct sitting down away from it all at a video monitor. But I can't do that.

The job of the director is to make certain that the film has one voice and a sense of a single vision, even though it's produced by a large number of people making contributions - to turn all those contributions from individual voices into one coherent one.

The E.U. is an economically right-wing organization that prioritizes the interests of big corporations.